Cancel Culture Comes for One of Australia’s Founding Fathers
Workers wash off red paint that was poured on a statue of Captain Cook at St. Kilda beach in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 26, 2022. Diego Fedele/Getty Images
Recently, efforts have been made to “cancel” figures linked to the European settlement of Australia.
Rocco Loiacono
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Rocco Loiacono is a legal academic from Perth, Australia, and is a translator from Italian to English. His work on translation, linguistics, and law have been widely published in peer-reviewed journals.