{"id":29137,"date":"2017-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-fight-over-captain-cook-s-statue-is-stupid\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T00:00:00","slug":"the-fight-over-captain-cook-s-statue-is-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-fight-over-captain-cook-s-statue-is-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fight Over Captain Cook\u2019s Statue Is A \u201cStupid Distraction\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Andrew Bolt has suggested Stan Grant worry about more important things than Captain Cook\u2019s statue.<\/h3>\n<p>Grant caused a stir after calling for the removal of an inscription on a Sydney statue saying Cook \u201cdiscovered\u201d Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIts such a stupid distraction,\u201d Bolt told Leon Byner on Thursday. \u201cIt\u2019s virtue signalling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy doesn\u2019t Stan Grant worry about the fact that Aboriginal children are 10 times more likely to be hospitalised because of violence at home\u2026 or that Aboriginal women are more than 30 times more likely to be hospitalised by domestic violence?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re worrying about an inscription on a statue? Seriously?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like the Taliban\u2026 remember our horror when the Taliban was destroying statues in the Afghanistan? It\u2019s the destruction of history &#8212; that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re trying to remove reminders of what it actually took to build this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/Mark-Bickley-Shares-A-Port-Adelaide-Whisper\"><strong>MARK BICKLEY SHARES A PORT ADELAIDE WHISPER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/Shocking-Scenes-At-Court-Appearance-Over-Lucy-Paveley-s-Tragic-Death\"><strong>SHOCKING SCENES AT COURT APPEARANCE OVER LUCY PAVELEY CASE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Bolt has suggested Stan Grant worry about more important things than Captain Cook\u2019s statue. Grant caused a stir after calling for the removal of an inscription on a Sydney statue saying Cook \u201cdiscovered\u201d Australia. \u201cIts such a stupid distraction,\u201d Bolt told Leon Byner on Thursday. \u201cIt\u2019s virtue signalling.\u201d \u201cWhy doesn\u2019t Stan Grant worry about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Fight Over Captain Cook\u2019s Statue Is A \u201cStupid Distraction\u201d - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-fight-over-captain-cook-s-statue-is-stupid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Fight Over Captain Cook\u2019s Statue Is A \u201cStupid Distraction\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andrew Bolt has suggested Stan Grant worry about more important things than Captain Cook\u2019s statue. 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