A memorial honouring one of Melbourne's founders, John Batman, at Queen Victoria Market was broken in the early hours of Saturday - the first day of the Australia Day long weekend. "Police are ...

An Anzac memorial in Melbourne has been vandalised ahead of ... and the personal upset caused,' the addition read. The Anzac statue which bears the inscription 'we died for country, live ye ...

Last year, one Captain Cook statue was cut down on the eve of the holiday, while its plinth was spray painted with the words 'the colony will fall'. Two years earlier the same Melbourne statue was ...

Two memorials and a citizenship ceremony marquee were damaged in Melbourne overnight, with Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan condemning acts of "senseless vandalism" ahead of Australia Day.

A few protesters took that antipathy a step further — by vandalizing statues of British settlers and an English king. The damage done in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra was a fresh sign that ...

A statue honouring the founder of modern-day Melbourne has been destroyed in the early hours of Saturday morning. Vandals ripped the John Batman monument from its plinth near Queen Victoria Market ...

Vandals defaced a statue honouring John Batman, one of the pioneers for modern day Melbourne. Police responded to calls at 2.20am after it was announced the statue had been cut in half.