The granite-and-bronze memorial in the southeastern Australian city has been a favourite target of vandals, who tore the monument down last year and scrawled “cook the colony” on its surface.
Stephen Jolly, mayor of Yarra City in Melbourne’s inner suburbs, said the Cook monument would not be replaced because it would just be “damaged again”.
“It would be ongoing. How can we justify that?”
Statues of colonial figures such as Cook are frequently targeted by vandals to draw attention to the plight of Australia’s Indigenous peoples.
Cook sailed into Botany Bay in 1770 and claimed eastern Australia for Britain under the doctrine of “terra nullius” -- land belonging to no one -- brushing over tens of thousands of years of Indigenous history.
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