James Cook
‘Sassy little taco’: Emerging entrepreneur likes rolling with the Libs
Maninderjit “Mannu” Kala has expensive tastes and hobnobs in high circles. He’s also got some snappy motivational messages.
- by Liam Mannix and Kishor Napier-Raman
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History
A hero’s welcome home for Flinders, two centuries too late
Explorer Matthew Flinders gave Australia its name. He had too much ambition to “rest in the unnoticed middle order of mankind”, but too many of us forget.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Violence crisis demands urgent response
Violence against women is under focus yet again – something that never seems to change.
Cooks’ Cottage statue toppled in latest attack on Melbourne monuments
A bronze statue dedicated to Captain James Cook was hacked off its plinth this week, a month after two monuments to the British explorer were vandalised.
- by Alex Crowe
Captain Cook set for St Kilda return after council vote down proposed relocation
Captain Cook statue likely to return to St Kilda foreshore after council vote to continue with proposed resurrection.
- by Alex Crowe and Lachlan Abbott
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History
Museum presents new claims for Endeavour shipwreck
New evidence has emerged supporting the controversial claim that explorer Captain Cook’s ship HMB Endeavour was shipwrecked off the US coastline.
- by Tim Barlass
Rio Tinto’s former ‘First Lady’ lashes corporate Yes backers
Muriel Demarcus, whose husband Jean-Sebastien Jacques resigned as Rio Tinto boss after the firm blew up sacred Indigenous sites, had little time for the Voice.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Why it took 100 years to restore the dignity of Nanny Nellie
A family’s fight to right the wrongs against a woman who was used without consent for a naked sculpture.
- by Julie Power
Spears taken by James Cook from Botany Bay to be returned to traditional owners
More than 250 years after British soldiers took dozens of spears, only four remain and they will soon be permanently returned to the Aboriginal community of La Perouse.
- by Eelemarni Close-Brown
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Racism
‘Stuck in the past’: Push to remove statue of ‘racist’ Australian prime minister
A statue erected for the centenary of Federation in 2001 could be removed because of an “explicitly racist” legacy.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Opinion
Reliving history
Statues with limitations: The bronzed figures who stand still while time marches on
The imminent removal of a statue honouring a despicable 19th century Tasmanian premier is a reminder that we should be careful who, and what, we put on a pedestal.
- by Malcolm Knox
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