Shorten is Cooked

BILL Shorten has backed away from his call to change the Captain Cook statue in Sydney’s Hyde Park after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull accused him of “rewarding vandalism”.

The Cook statue sprayed with graffiti at weekend.

After Mr Turnbull yesterday accused Mr Shorten of “basically rewarding vandalism” the Labor Leader backed down. “This Prime Minister is now engaging in statue wars with Labor, we condemn the vandalism full stop,” he said. was the