Campbelltown is represented in the Sydney Grade Cricket competition by the Campbelltown-Camden Ghosts who play their home games in Raby and in the Sydney AFL's Premier Division, by the Campbelltown Blues who play their home games in Macquarie Fields.

** Macquarie Fields, now a suburb of Sydney but named by surveyor Evans after the governor

The main suburbs include Austral, Bardia, Bow Bowing, Casula, Claymore, Denham Court, Edmondson Park, Eschol Park, Glenfield, Horningsea Park, Hoxton Park, Ingleburn, Leppington, Lurnea, Macquarie Fields, Minto, Minto Heights, Prestons, Raby, St Andrews and Varroville and parts of Liverpool, Leumeah and West Hoxton.

Growing up in Macquarie Fields, Emerton first jumped on the pitch at Bensley Road Gunners Soccer Club, where he was nicknamed ' the greyhound ' with his fast skills and ability to outpace the competition.

* 2005 Macquarie Fields riots

Macquarie Fields is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Macquarie Fields has a mix of public and private housing and is surrounded by bushland.

The original inhabitants of the Macquarie Fields area were the Darug people of western Sydney.

Macquarie Fields was named by early landholder James Meehan in honour of the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie.

For his work, he was granted a number of parcels of land including in what is now Macquarie Fields and neighbouring suburbs.

Macquarie Fields gained notoriety as the location of riots in 2005.

Brett Emerton attended Macquarie Fields Public School and Macquarie Fields High School and played for the local soccer club, Gunners United Soccer Club.

Macquarie Fields Station

Macquarie Fields railway station is serviced by the South, Cumberland and East Hills lines of the CityRail network.

Macquarie Fields is serviced by five Interline / Busabout bus routes:

876 Eucalyptus Drive to Macquarie Fields Station

* Macquarie Fields High School ( public, high school )

* Macquarie Fields Public School ( public, primary school )

The town is home to Macquarie Fields Leisure Centre, which contains an indoor aquatic centre and an outdoor olympic sized swimming pool.

Macquarie Fields is a suburb with a diverse community.

The Governor's present day office is the historic Chief Secretary ’ s Building nearby, at 121 Macquarie Street.

Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park.

The University Council is the governing authority of the university under the Macquarie University Act 1989.

Macquarie University's main campus is located about north-west of the Sydney CBD and is set on 126 hectares of rolling lawns and natural bushland.

The university is straddled between the suburbs of North Ryde and the later developed technology and industry focused Macquarie Park ; however, the campus has its own postcode, 2109.

E4A Building at Entrance to UniversityToday, Macquarie University is served by the Macquarie University railway station, which opened in 2009, as well as a bus interchange within the campus that provides close to 800 bus services daily.

Macquarie is also seeking to develop the eastern perimeter of its campus along Herring Road and establish a new Station Precinct that will contain a number of multi-storey towers, basement car parking and a ground plane that will provide retail and landscaped connections to the university proper.

* Macquarie City Campus: Macquarie City Campus is a teaching campus of Macquarie University which associates with Navitas.

The world's richest concentration of orchid varieties is found in the tropics, mostly Asia, South America and Central America, but they are also found above the Arctic Circle, in southern Patagonia, and two species of Nematoceras on Macquarie Island at 54 degrees South.

The Macquarie Dictionary defines racism as: " the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one ’ s own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others.

Reflecting different national usages, cunt is described as " an unpleasant or stupid person " in the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, whereas Merriam-Webster has a usage of the term as " usually disparaging and obscene: woman ", noting that it is used in the U. S. as " an offensive way to refer to a woman "; the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English states that it is " a despicable man ", however when used with a positive qualifier ( good, funny, clever, etc.

Macquarie Pass National Park is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 90 km southwest of Sydney.

The Macquarie Rivulet track is two kilometres long and easy to medium grade.

Access is also possible via Carrai Road, Coachwood Road and the Racecourse Trail from Kempsey, or the Hastings Forest Way and Racecourse Trail from Port Macquarie.

Willi Willi national park is quite noticeable from nearby Port Macquarie as a tall escarpment to the north west.

Macquarie Southern Cross Radio network shows from Hobart, Gold Coast and Albury ; the rest of the time it is an " Adult Hits " station.

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.

Although the AAD maintains a base on Macquarie Island, that island is not a federal territory but is rather part of the Australian state of Tasmania.

On 20 March 2011 Dr Peter Mitchell of Macquarie University announced that he had located the actual grave site in the garden of a private house in present day Putney.

Morisset is a commercial centre and suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, and is located west of Lake Macquarie just off the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway.

In October 2006 it moved away from Macquarie University to the University of Sydney where it is located in Fisher Library.

Bathurst is located on the western edge of the Great Dividing Range in the Macquarie River plain the area also known as the Bathurst plains.

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

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

The Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve is a natural wetland reserve located within the Macquarie Marshes, in the region along the lower Macquarie River in northwestern New South Wales, Australia, about northwest of Sydney.

This route turned north 2 km south of O ' Connell to run northwest to where Kelso is now located, then west across the Macquarie River into Bathurst.

It is located at the corner of Bridge Street and Loftus Street, and is named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie.

Ophir is located near the Macquarie River northeast of the city of Orange.

** Macquarie Centre, a regional sized shopping centre located in Macquarie Park

Remote subantarctic Macquarie Island, which is located some 1400 km southeast of Tasmania proper, was part of Esperance until then, and has been part of Huon Valley since then.

Some of the small population is located in the small cluster of towns near Macquarie Harbour-Strahan and Queenstown, these were linked in their connection with the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company

Macquarie Centre is a regional sized shopping centre located between Herring, Waterloo and Talevera Roads in the suburb of Macquarie Park in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and opposite Macquarie University's main campus.

The Epping to Chatswood rail link offers frequent train services to Macquarie University station located directly next to Macquarie Centre, On 13 October 13, 2009, rail services run east-south to the Sydney CBD and continue east / south to Epping via Strathfield.