Macquarie, Grantlee Kieza
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Macquarie, Grantlee Kieza
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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individual biography
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Macquarie
Responsibility statement
Grantlee Kieza
Summary
Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming a harsh, foreboding penal colony into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society. He also helped shape Australia's national character. An egalitarian at heart, Macquarie saw boundless potential in Britain's refuse, and under his rule many former convicts went on to become successful administrators, land owners and business people. However, the governor's ambitions for the colony brought him into conflict with the continent's original landowners, and he was responsible for the deaths of Aboriginal men, women and children, brutally killed in a military operation intended to create terror among local Indigenous people. So was Macquarie the man who sowed the seeds of a new nation, or a tyrant who destroyed Aboriginal resistance? Lover, fighter, egalitarian, autocrat, Lachlan Macquarie is a complex and engaging character who first envisaged the nation we call Australia
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Macquarie, lover, fighter, egalitarian autocrat - the man who envisaged a nation
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