Statue of British Monarch Beheaded During King’s Birthday Public Holiday

Published on June 10, 2024

Activists have vandalised a statue of King George V in Melbourne’s CBD amid an ongoing campaign targeting the effigies of Australian colonial-era figures. Footage on social media showed a person wearing a green high-vis jacket cutting off the head of the former British monarch’s statue in Kings Domain on Linlithgow Avenue, near the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The 54-second video also showed a person covering the statue’s plinth with red paint and spraying the anti-colonial slogan, “The colony will fall.” The song, God Save the Queen, by UK punk rock band The Clash was overlayed on the footage....

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