I hope they don't tear down the statue of Lachlan Macquarie at the northern edge of Sydney's Hyde Park, but its days are probably numbered. Standing a mile from Bennelong Point (what the Aboriginal Australians called Dubbagullee where the Opera House now stands) it pays homage to the fifth Governor of New South Wales, a Scot from the Inner Hebrides who …
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