A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been splashed with red paint and its hand removed days before Australians celebrate their controversial “Australia Day” on Sunday. New ...

We know the precise date that it came into Cook's hands, 29 April 1770. We have written accounts ... his first European on the shore at Botany Bay nearly two hundred and fifty years ago, this ...

It is named after Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist on Captain Cook's 1770 voyage of discovery and key advocate for establishing a colony at Botany Bay. Banks has been held by the Labor Party since ...