In 1810, Governor Lachlan Macquarie commissioned a bench for his wife, and the city's convicts carved Mrs. Macquarie's Chair out of a sandstone rock overlooking Sydney Harbour. To this day ...

(Map) Macquarie has existed as an electorate since Federation and is named after Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of NSW 1809-21. His period as Governor saw the building of many significant roads and ...

Pip Hinman reports. Human rights activist Stephen Langford has finally been acquitted of “malicious damage” for pasting of the words of Governor Lachlan Macquarie on his statue in Hyde Park. Jim ...

Governor Lachlan Macquarie called it First Landing Day, or Foundation Day, to mark when the First Fleet officially arrived in Australia and the Union Jack flag was raised in Sydney Cove.