Achievements of the Macquarie Administration
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- Created on: 23-02-17 18:31
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- New Towns
- Expanded downtown Sydney
- 1810-1811 Founded new towns to the west of Sydney: Liverpool, Windsor, Richmond - each had a church, a school and a public house
- Achievements of Lord Macquarie's administration
- Aboriginals and Convicts
- Macquarie sought to improve the lives of convicts
- Ex-convicts when they had served their sentence- were readmitted back into society
- Restrained corporal punished through building more prisons
- Macquarie sought to improve the lives of convicts
- Economic Development
- October 1810- Opened a new market place in Sydney
- The glut of famine and lively stoke continued to threaten the economy, despite large investment
- 1816- opening of Colony's first bank- despite being opposed by London
- Aboriginals and Convicts
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