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Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park.
Macquarie University also has the largest student exchange programme in Australia.
Also affiliated with the university are several research centres, schools and institutes including the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, the Institute of Human Cognition and Brain Science, the Macquarie University Research Park and the Macquarie University Hospital.
The fledgling Macquarie University Council decided that planning for the campus would be done within the university, rather than by consultants, and this led to the establishment of the architect-planners office.
In their book Liberality of Opportunity, Bruce Mansfield and Mark Hutchinson describe the founding of Macquarie University as ‘ an act of faith and a great experiment ’.
The first Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University was Alexander George Mitchell, who held the position until December 1975, when he was replaced by Edwin Webb, who served until 1986.
During 2007, Macquarie University faced a restructuring of its student organisation after an audit raised questions about management of hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds by student organisations At the centre of the investigation was Victor Ma, president of the Macquarie University Students ' Council, who had previously been involved in a high-profile case of student election fixing at the University of Sydney.
The Federal Court ordered on 23 May 2007 that Macquarie University Union Ltd be wound up.
Following the dissolution of Macquarie University Union Ltd, the outgoing student organisation was replaced with a new wholly owned subsidiary company of the university, known as U @ MQ Ltd.
The new student organisation originally lacked a true student representative union ; however, following a complete review and authorisation from the university Council, a new student union known as Macquarie University Students Association ( MUSRA ) was established in 2009.

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This was the beginning of the process of convict emancipation which was to culminate in the reforms of Lachlan Macquarie after 1811.
First Students at Macquarie UniversityThe idea of founding a third university in Sydney was flagged in the early 1960s when the New South Wales Government formed a committee of enquiry into higher education to deal with a perceived emergency in university enrollments in New South Wales.
After much debate a future campus location was selected in what was then a semi-rural part of North Ryde, and it was decided that the future university be named after Lachlan Macquarie, an important early governor of the colony of New South Wales.
Within the first few hundred days of Schwartz's instatement as Vice-Chancellor, the ' Macquarie @ 50 ' strategic plan was launched, which positioned the university to enhance research, teaching, infrastructure and academic rankings by the university's 50th anniversary in 2014.
Included in the university's plans for the future was the establishment of a sustainability office in order to more effectively manage environmental and social development at Macquarie.
The university ’ s first architect-planner was Walter Abraham, one of the first six administrators appointed to Macquarie University.
Macquarie University teachers also have received numerous awards and citations from the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education since it was established in 2004.
Afterwards, the colony was ruled by the military, with the senior military officer stationed in Sydney acting as the Lieutenant-Governor of the colony until the arrival from Britain of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie as the new Governor at the beginning of 1810.
Major-General Lachlan Macquarie was put in charge of the mission after Major-General Miles Nightingall fell ill before departure.
Due to cross-media ownership laws preventing the ownership of more than two stations in one market, Macquarie was required to sell one of these stations and in September 2005 sold 2AY to the Ace Radio network.
Governor Macquarie was presented with one of these cloaks by a Wiradjuri man when he visited Bathurst in 1815.
In the area surrounding Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, he was believed to have created all of the mountains, lakes, rivers and caves in the area.
Macquarie Pass National Park was established in 1970 and protects a range of eucalypt forests and rainforest, including one of Australia's most southerly stands of subtropical rainforest.
The Wool Road ( now the Oxley Highway ), was built through here in 1842 with convict labour to link the wool-growing settlement of Walcha with Port Macquarie.

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Macquarie formally adopted the name Australia for the continent, the name earlier proposed by the first circumnavigator of Australia, Matthew Flinders.
Macquarie Place was the first formally laid out public space in Sydney ( 1810 ), functioning as the town square.
The Street was formally named for King George III of the United Kingdom by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810.

Macquarie and established
In 1972, the university established the Macquarie Law School, the third law school in Sydney.
Lieutenant Governor Arthur established a penal settlement at Darlington in 1825 for convicts whose crimes were not of ' so flagrant a nature ' that they should be sent to the notorious Macquarie Harbour settlement on Tasmania's west coast.
After the war, Finch continued to work heavily in radio and established himself as Australia's leading actor in that medium, winning Macquarie Awards for best actor in 1946 and 1947.
It is published by Macquarie Dictionary Publishers Pty Ltd, a company specifically established for the task, currently owned by Macmillan Publishers.
In 1818, Governor Lachlan Macquarie had Sydney's main burial ground established near the town's brickworks.
In 1819 Governor Lachlan Macquarie established a new settlement, Bathurst, in this new country, and appointed Lawson as commander of the Bathurst settlement, a position he held until 1823.
The street layout of modern central Sydney is based upon a street plan established by Macquarie.
* Campbelltown, New South Wales, a town founded in 1820, one of a series of settlements south-west of Sydney being established by Macquarie at that time
In the Rum Rebellion of 1808, the Corps, working closely with the newly established wool trader John Macarthur, staged the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history, deposing Governor William Bligh and instigating a brief period of military rule in the colony prior to the arrival from Britain of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810.
* 1948: Antarctic research station established on Macquarie Island
In 1813 Macquarie finally managed to established a stable currency in coin that could be retained in the colony.
Around 1811 Macquarie established the five Macquarie Towns in the area: Windsor, Richmond, Castlereagh, Wilberforce and Pitt Town.
Squatters started settling along the Macquarie Valley and in 1832 Mission Society CMS was established in the settlement to teach Christianity to the Aborigines.
The convict settlement ceased in 1831 but a village called Montefiores was established on the north side of the Macquarie River crossing.
Macquarie himself travelled across it soon after completion, established and named Bathurst, and named the road the Great Western Road.
In 1826 a military and police outpost was established at Molong, on Governor Darling's orders, as a step in opening up the government stock reserve west of the Macquarie River for settlement.
At the peak of the industry in 1905, the plant established on Macquarie Island was processing 2000 penguins at a time, with each penguin yielding about half a litre of oil.
The devastation caused by flooding in February, 1817 prompted Governor Macquarie to issue a notice exhorting settlers, in the strongest possible terms, to build their residences above the established flood levels.
In 1811, the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, established the second Sydney Common, about one-and-a-half miles wide and extending south from South Head Rd ( now Oxford St ) to where Randwick Racecourse is today.

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