The landmark sculpture in St Kilda was sliced off at the ankles overnight by vandals, who targeted the statue on the eve of Australia Day.

The metal sculpture on Jacka Boulevard in St Kilda was sawn off at the ankles about 3.30am Thursday, with vandals also spray-painting “the colony will fall” on the statue’s granite plinth.

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
    247·
    5 months ago

    Ordinarily I’m more in favour of taking down colonialist statues and putting them in a museum, but this will do just fine for today.

    • Nonameuser678@aussie.zone
      161·
      5 months ago

      I think the whole thing as is (vandalised and all) should be put in a museum. History is not linear or static. We actively create and engage in history each day. Vandalising and pulling down these statues is not erasing history but rather contributing to it. If the statue gets cleaned and fixed then that is arguably an act of historical erasure.