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Captain Cook statue sawn off at the ankles on eve of Australia Day (www.theage.com.au)
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The metal sculpture on Jacka Boulevard in St Kilda was sawn off at the ankles about 3.30am Thursday, with vandals also spray-painting “the colony will fall” on the statue’s granite plinth.

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[-] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think the whole thing as is (vandalised and all) should be put in a museum. History is not linear or static. We actively create and engage in history each day. Vandalising and pulling down these statues is not erasing history but rather contributing to it. If the statue gets cleaned and fixed then that is arguably an act of historical erasure.

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