The solid bronze severed head of Melbourne’s decapitated King George V statue appears to have briefly reappeared in public, gracing the stage during a performance by a visiting Northern Irish…
A statue of King George V has been beheaded and covered in red paint in the latest attack on colonial monuments in Victoria.Police were called to the statue in Melbourne’s…
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh continued their six-month Commonwealth Tour in Australia when they arrived in Melbourne on this day in 1954, following Tours around the United Kingdom after the Queen’s Coronation. The stops in Bermuda, Jamaica, Panama, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand and Australia were followed by visits…