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‘Thieves with angle grinders’: Indigenous elder condemns vandalism of Captain Cook statue

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‘Thieves with angle grinders’: Indigenous elder condemns vandalism of Captain Cook statue

www.theage.com.au

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MelbourneEnglish · 11 months ago

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Speaking at a mourning ceremony at dawn on Australia Day, Boon Wurrung elder Jason Briggs called the vandals who cut the Captain James Cook statue off his plinth “cretins”.

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