This includes a variety of native fish such as the famous Murray cod, trout cod, golden perch, Macquarie perch, silver perch, eel-tailed catfish, Australian smelt and western carp gudgeon, to name a few, and other aquatic species like the Murray short-necked turtle, Murray River crayfish, broad-clawed yabbies and the large clawed Macrobrachium shrimp, as well as aquatic species more widely distributed through south-eastern Australia such as common long-necked turtles, common yabbies, the small claw-less Paratya shrimp, water rats and Platypus.

The Albury / Wodonga market underwent significant change in 2005 when Macquarie Southern Cross Media bought 105. 7 The River from RG Capital Radio Network, and 2AY and Star FM from the DMG Radio Australia.

Tamworth is located on the western side of the Great Dividing Range, on the banks of the Peel River, about 420 km north of Sydney on the New England Highway, and 280 km inland from Port Macquarie on the Oxley Highway.

They left the Lachlan up-stream of the present site of Lake Cargelligo and crossed to the Bogan River and then across to the upper waters of the Macquarie, which they followed back to Bathurst ( arriving on 29 August 1817 ).

Later in 1818 Oxley and his men explored the Macquarie River at length before turning east.

Upon reaching the Hastings River they followed it to its mouth, discovering that it flowed into the sea at a spot which they named Port Macquarie.

The Queen River was for most of the history of the Mount Lyell company the recipient of mining effluent and the Queenstown sewage-which then continued into the King River and consequently the Macquarie Harbour.

Queenstown is the terminus of the West Coast Wilderness Railway, which travels southwards alongside the Queen River, and then along the northern slopes of the King River to the port of Strahan in Macquarie Harbour.

He returned to Sydney in 1810, where he was appointed acting Provost-Marshall by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and given a land grant of on the Nepean River.

Sturt received approval from Governor Darling on 4 November 1828 to explore the area of the Macquarie River in western New South Wales.

The courses of the Macquarie, Bogan and Castlereagh rivers had been followed, and though its importance was scarcely sufficiently realized, the Darling River had been discovered.

In 1828 the explorer Charles Sturt and Hamilton Hume were sent by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Ralph Darling, to investigate the course of the Macquarie River.

These tributaries include the Balonne River ( of which the Culgoa is one of three main branches ) and its tributaries ; the Macintyre River and its tributaries such as the Dumaresq River and the Severn Rivers ( there are two-one either side or the state border ); the Gwydir River ; the Namoi River ; the Castlereagh River ; and the Macquarie River.

On a visit of inspection to the settlement of Hobart Town on the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land ( now Tasmania ) in November 1811, Macquarie was appalled at the ramshackle arrangement of the town and ordered the government surveyor James Meehan to survey a regular street layout.

Macquarie University showed a significant drop in the 2007 THES-QS World University Rankings ( From 2010 two separate rankings will be produced by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings ).

Lake Macquarie is classified as a " city ", but there is no significant distinction between the terms " city ", " shire ", and " municipality " as applied to Local Government Areas in New South Wales.

After the success of this project he was emancipated by the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, and in the role of Acting Civil Architect and Assistant Engineer responsible to Captain J. M. Gill, Inspector of Public Works, went on to build many significant buildings in the new colony.

On 15 October 2010, the Stagecoach Group announced that is was re-acquiring the business from Macquarie for a sum of nearly £ 59 million, which represents a significant profit for Stagecoach since it sold the company to Macquarie for £ 263. 6 million in June 2006.

Indeed, Macquarie perch populations have failed in significant stretches of relatively pristine upland river that offer excellent habitat, are not silted, dammed or overfished, and where there are no possible explanations for their demise except introduced trout species.

Dietary studies have documented significant overlap between the diet of Macquarie perch and introduced trout species, and anglers have observed predation of Macquarie perch juveniles by introduced trout species.

Recent research ( Lintermans, 2006 ) records dietary overlaps that are significant by scientific criteria between Macquarie perch and introduced trout species.

Not only do these stockings threaten Macquarie perch by competition and predation, but rainbow trout fingerlings have been shown to carry significant levels of EHN virus.

The Macquarie River is one of the main inland rivers in New South Wales, Australia.

Wellington is a town in inland New South Wales, Australia located at the junction of the Macquarie and Bell Rivers.

The site of Port Macquarie was first visited by Europeans in 1818 when John Oxley reached the Pacific Ocean from the interior, after his journey to explore inland New South Wales.

* Macquarie River, an inland river in New South Wales, Australia

* Macquarie Riverone of the main inland rivers in New South Wales

Wauchope is inland on the Hastings River and the Oxley Highway west of Port Macquarie.

* Macquarie Rivulet, a river 23 kilometres long which rises near Robertson, New South Wales and drains into Lake Illawarra

The city straddles the Macquarie River, a river that feeds into the Murray Darling River system which is the largest river system in Australia.

The Macquarie River divides Bathurst with the CBD located on the western side of the river.

The river travels generally northwest past the towns of Bathurst, Wellington, Dubbo, Narromine, and Warren to the Macquarie Marshes.

The river was first discovered near Bathurst by European explorer, George Evans in 1812 and named in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel Lachlan Macquarie, who served as the last autocratic Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, from 1810 to 1821.

Below or west of Teepookana, in the last 10 km of the River, extensive silting from the mine tailings that have been carried down from Queenstown, has created such a resource that at least one mining company has in the past proposed the mining of the deposits at the edge of the river, as well as the delta formed out into Macquarie Harbour due to the amount of economically viable materials in the silt.

King river at entrance to Macquarie Harbour-the West Coast Wilderness Railway line passes from the right of this picture to enter the King River Valley at the left of photo.

Port Macquarie was declared a municipality in 1887, but the town never progressed as a port due to presence of a notorious coastal bar across the mouth of the river.

The European discoverer of the Lachlan River in 1815 was Acting-Surveyor George William Evans, who named the river after Lachlan Macquarie, the Governor of the colony of New South Wales.

* Hibbard Ferry, across the Hastings River near Port Macquarie, New South Wales Great lakes across the river at Great lakes New South Wales

He then followed the Macleay, Clarence, Hastings, Richmond and Tweed river valleys, visiting Port Macquarie, Brisbane and Moreton Bay.

In 1823, Oxley with Phillip Parker King in the " Mermaid " explored the coast from Port Macquarie to Port Curtis ( Australian Dictionary of Biography pp 305 – 07 ) but there is no reference to citing a river nor naming one.

He arrived from Birmingham in 1834 and bought land on the southern bank of the river in 1836, at what was then the limit of authorized settlement ( the boundary of County Macquarie ).

After a long series of offences in the colony, he was sent to the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station in 1822 but subsequently escaped, and was recaptured near the mouth of the river which now bears his nickname.

The Macquarie perch ( Macquaria australasica ) is an Australian native freshwater fish of the Murray-Darling river system.

Macquarie perch, like many other Murray-Darling native fish, have managed to cross the Great Dividing Range into eastern coastal systems through natural river capture events.

Originally, river blackfish co-inhabited many of its lowland and " midland " habitats with species such as Murray cod and golden perch, and its upland habitats with species such as trout cod and Macquarie perch.

He refers to the river as the " Bellingen River " in his 1845 book, " Australia From Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay ".

The Hastings River is a large river on the Mid North Coast of the Australian state of New South Wales that empties into the Tasman Sea, a branch of the South Pacific Ocean, at Port Macquarie.

The Queanbeyan River was renowned as a beautiful river abounding in native Murray Cod, which once extended to the vicinity of Googong Dam, and native Macquarie perch, which extended to at least the headwaters of Googong Dam.