The Lachlan Macquarie statue in Windsor’s McQuade Park, in north-west Sydney, was doused in red paint ahead of a local dawn service.
A community in Sydney’s north-west is angry after a statue was defaced with red paint ahead of a local Anzac Day dawn service.
Mayor Sarah McMahon said she was alerted to the incident after the dawn service and said upon inspection, the paint was still “significantly wet”. “To me, it had been done quite recently,” she said. “I am really saddened there are members of our community out there that think this is the appropriate way to get their message across.”“We are a military community here in the Hawkesbury and to have this done on a day of such national and local significance to me is appalling,” she said.
Local resident Tim Kelly took to Facebook to share an image of the defaced statue, receiving hundreds of horrified comments in response. “The day was about our servicemen, not about any other agenda,” he said. “Everyone is absolutely disgusted.”“This vandalism is a cowardly and gutless act on a day when we are united in honouring the country’s heroes who fought and died for our freedom,” she said. “It is divisive and disrespectful.
Monument Australia, an organisation that records monuments throughout Australia, states on its website the statue was commissioned during the bicentenary celebrations in 1994 of European settlement in the Hawkesbury.Loading
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