Yet ANOTHER Melbourne Captain Cook memorial is toppled and defaced just two days after Australia Day protests targeted other city-centre statues

Another Captain Cook monument has been vandalised and its stone base toppled just two days after Australia Day protestors targeted other city memorials. The Captain Cook plaque, located at the Rowe Street entrance to Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North, Melbourne, was toppled over with vandals spray-painting 'Cook the Colony' on its base 'Police are aware of damage to a plaque in Edinburgh Gardens on Alfred Crescent in North Fitzroy. It comes after a 110-year-old Captain Cook statue at St Kilda's Catani Gardens was cut at the ankles and defaced just hours before Australia Day. It comes just two days after a 110-year-old Captain Cook statue at St Kilda's Catani Gardens was cut at the ankles and defaced The 117-year-old monument in Queen Victoria Gardens in the Melbourne CBD was also splattered in red paint The Captain Cook statue has been a frequent target for vandals in recent years.