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Published on: 24/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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New South Wales police said it received reports of a vandalised statue in Sydney’s Eastern Beaches at Randwick on Friday morning. Officers had seized “a number of items” at the scene. The statute has recently undergone restoration work after a similar incident in February last year. Cook arrived in Sydney Cove in 1770, opening up the continent now known as Australia to colonisation by the British Crown.
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Cook wasn’t a great person but really the lions share of fault for the way colonisation occurred lies elsewhere.
The Proclamation of NSW Governor Richard Bourke in 1835 implemented the legal principle of terra nullius in Australian law as the basis for British settlement. This was 47 years after the arrival of the First Fleet
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/recognising-invasions/terra-nullius/
I don’t care when Australia day is as long as I get a public holiday
