Captain Cook memorial will not return to Melbourne park after repeated vandalism
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6X8YA)
City of Yarra voted to scrap memorial to the explorer, which was toppled and graffitied in January
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A contentious Captain Cook memorial repeatedly damaged by vandalism is to be scrapped.
The City of Yarra on Tuesday voted unanimously not to restore the memorial, which stood at the entrance to Edinburgh Gardens in Melbourne's inner north.
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