‘Historically illiterate’: Council considers scrapping Captain Cook statue

Sky News host Caleb Bond has slammed suggestions the sawed-down Captain Cook statue in St Kilda shouldn’t be rebuilt. The sculpture located in Catani Gardens was sawn off from the ankles and vandalised, with the words "the colony will fall" written in what appeared to be red paint. Councillors have planned to call for a community consultation on whether the statue should be reinstated in a motion at Wednesday’s council meeting. “Captain Cook was dead nine years before the First Fleet arrived,” Mr Bond said. “These people are just so historically illiterate and if we give them a single inch and say ‘well okay we are not going to put the statue up, it keeps getting targeted by vandals’, you are saying to vandals to cut down every statue in the country.”