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A Captain Cook statue has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day celebrations.
The monument in St Kilda in Melbourne's southeast was covered in red paint and plastered with protest signs.
One demands: 'Why should we abolish Australia Day?'
It adds: 'So-called Australia is built on the genocide of Aboriginal people.'
Police have now launched a hunt for the culprits and are scouring local CCTV footage to track down those responsible.
The Captain Cook monument in St Kilda, Melbourne 's southeast, was splattered with red paint (pictured)
The vandals appear to have poured red paint over the head of the statue, standing around 3m high, covering it from head to toe before its plinth too was also covered in paint.
The statue was built to commemorate Captain James Cook, a British explorer who made the first recorded European contact with Australia's east
