Achievements of the Macquarie Administration

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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
      • 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

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