The metal Captain Cook sculpture on Jacka Boulevard in Catani Gardens, in St Kilda, was sawn off at the ankles at 3.30am on Thursday, with the vandals spray-painting "the colony will fall" on the statue’s granite plinth.
Did VERA and her forensic pathologist Malcolm Donahue establish the precise time of the ankle-cutting or did someone watch the hooligans in action? If the latter, why weren't they stopped?
This is taking Australia Day celebrations to a new low - literally! I hope they find the perpetrators and cut off their unemployment benefits because they're claiming them under false pretences: there are plenty of scrap metal recycling places where their talents could be used.
Although I haven't it checked yet with the Thought Police at the ABC, I wish you all a possibly politically totally incorrect "Happy Australia Day".
