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Macquarie and was
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.
Macquarie University was formally established in 1964 with the passage of the Macquarie University Act 1964 by the New South Wales parliament.
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.
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.
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.

Macquarie and ordered
The Federal Court ordered on 23 May 2007 that Macquarie University Union Ltd be wound up.
Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered the construction of a road, which became known as the Great South Road ( the basis of the northern end of the Hume Highway ) in 1819 from Picton to the Goulburn Plains and he travelled to Goulburn in 1820, but it is unlikely that even a primitive road was finished at that time.
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.
In 1820, Governor Macquarie ordered the consecration of the Devonshire Street Cemetery.
While in Windsor, Macquarie ordered the main institutions of organised settlement to be erected, such as a church, school-house, gaol and " commodious inn " ( The Macquarie Arms ).

Macquarie and by
An expedition in May 2008 by 19 scientists studied the geology and biology of eight Macquarie Ridge sea mounts, as well as the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to investigate the effects of climate change of the southern Ocean.
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.
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.
Bachelor and master degrees are awarded by Macquarie University and students have access to the university library for study and research.
Macquarie has been consistently ranked in the top 10 Universities in Australia and among the top 200 Universities in the world by various sources.
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 ).
* Pitt Town, New South Wales, named after Pitt by Governor Macquarie in 1810
The closure of Belmont Airport, commonly referred to as Aeropelican, in the Lake Macquarie suburb of Marks Point has caused Williamtown to become Newcastle's only major airport and residents in the south of the Newcastle metropolitan area must commute up to by car to reach Williamtown.
Governor Macquarie reinstated all the officials who had been sacked by Johnston and Macarthur and cancelled all land and stock grants that had been made since Bligh's deposition, though to calm things down he made grants that he thought appropriate and prevented any revenge.
The explorer John Oxley passed by the Apsley Falls in September 1818 and travelled eastwards through this area en route to Port Macquarie.
In December 2004 NTL sold its broadcast-unit to a consortium led by Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group ( MCG ) for £ 1. 27 billion.
Li received competing offers by two consortia led by Australia's Macquarie Bank and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group / Newbridge submitted expressions of interest last month to acquire PCCW's core telecom and media assets.
In 1814, like many others almost insolvent because of drought and depression, he tried to persuade Governor Macquarie to sanction a scheme for the exploitation of the interior by a large agricultural company similar to the later AustrafutiAgricultural Company of the 1820s.
The dictionary definition of aesthetic perpetuates Baumgarten's error and defines it as " things perceptible by the senses as opposed to things thinkable or immaterial ", " pertaining to the sense of the beautiful or the science of aesthetics " Macquarie Dictionary, 1981., or " of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful ".
For the city of Sydney it makes a major step towards the completion of the vision first enunciated by the then Conservatorium Director Eugene Goossens in 1947 when he lobbied Joe Cahill ( Minister for Local Government, later Premier ) for an Opera House on Bennelong Point to create a music precinct in the lower end of Macquarie Street.

Macquarie and British
A gothic structure with turrets, the building was described as a " palace for horses " and is a portrayal of the romantic vision of Governor Lachlan Macquarie and the British architectural trends of the time.
Both of these buildings were constructed by Macquarie in defiance of the British government's ban on expensive public building projects in the colony and reflect the tension between Macquarie's vision of Sydney as a Georgian city and the British government's view of the colony as a dumping ground for convicts to be financed as cheaply as possible.
Despite opposition from the British government, Macquarie encouraged the creation of the colony's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, in 1817.
By 1815, Governor Macquarie declared a state of open warfare against aborigines in the Georges River area and forbade them carrying weapons within a mile of any British settlement.
Macquarie University academic Joseph Pugliese is among writers who have applied whiteness studies to an Australian context, discussing the ways that Indigenous Australians were marginalized in the wake of British colonization of Australia, as whiteness came to be defined as central to Australian identity.
The Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, a former British colonial penal settlement, established on Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour in the former colony of Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, Australia, operated between 1822 and 1833.
The British Medical Association's 1920s BMA House at 135-137 Macquarie St still houses medical chambers and lecture hall.
Macquarie Park is named for Governor Lachlan Macquarie ( 1762 – 1824 ) a British military officer and colonial administrator, who served as the Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821.
To overcome this shortage of coins, Governor Lachlan Macquarie took the initiative of using £ 10, 000 in Spanish dollars sent by the British government to produce suitable coins in a similar manner to that described above.

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