How Captain Cook became a contested national symbol
- Written by Tracy Ireland, Associate Professor Cultural Heritage, University of Canberra
Captain Cook has loomed large in the federal government’s 2018 budget. The government allocated $48.7 million over four years to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Cook’s voyages to the South Pacific and Australia in 1770. The funding has been widely debated on social media as another fray in Australia’s culture wars,...
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