Lachlan Macquarie Essays

Personal History Colin Barnett was sworn in as Western Australia's 29th Premier on 23rd September 2008. Mr Barnett was State Development Minister from 2008 until early 2016 and currently holds the Tourism and Science portfolios. He is committed to broadening Western Australia's economy based around the State's comparative advantages in mining, oil and gas, agriculture, tourism and science. Western Australia's natural resources, unique environment, enviable lifestyle and reputation for high quality

Mountains in the same year. In 1814, Governor Lachlan Macquarie approved an offer by William Cox to build a road crossing the Blue Mountains, from Emu Plains, the existing road terminus west of Sydney, to the Bathurst Plains. The first road to cross the Blue Mountains was 12 feet (3.7 m) wide by 101 1⁄2 miles (163.3 km) long, built between 18 July 1814 to 14 January 1815 using 5 freemen, 30 convict labourers and 8 soldiers as guards. Governor Macquarie surveyed the finished road in April 1815 by driving

The suburb is named after surgeon William Redfern, who was granted 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land in this area in 1817 by Lachlan Macquarie. He built a country house on his property surrounded by flower and kitchen gardens. His neighbours were Captain Cleveland, an officer of the 73rd regiment, who built Cleveland House and John Baptist, who ran a nursery and seed business. Sydney 's original railway terminus was built in Cleveland Paddocks and extended from Cleveland Street to Devonshire Street and

knowledge, they ignored the local people’s skills, who had lived there for so long and who were now being decimated by new European disease. Some of the finest buildings of this early convict period were built during Lachlan Macquarie’s tenture of Governor in 1810 until 1821. Macquarie wants to build a city and got himself recalled by London for his trouble. Despite

Mary Bryant was given birth in 1765 Fowey, Cornwall England. Towards the age of 19 Marry had been appearing for work when she found herself a task as a highway woman. At the age of 21 (1786), Mary was then founded guilty of assaulting a single woman and stealing a silk Bonnet off her. Because of this crime Mary was then sentenced to death. Soon after her sentenced changed too, 7 years transportation. Mary was committed to the prison hulk, Dukirk in Plymouth. In May 1787 Mary then had been shipped