News about Lachlan MacQuarie

Captain Cook (center), Governor Arthur Philip, Queen Victoria, and her dog (left), Lachlan Macquarie, and explorer Matthew Flinders with his pet snake Trim (right). However, there isn't a single statue on public property commemorating a First Nations person. Tourists would be forgiven for assuming there was no one in Australia before the British arrived, according to Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council deputy chair and Wiradjuri woman Yvonne Weldon.

John Macarthur (main) was the richest man in colonial NSW, but five generations later, his descendants are wrangling over what to do with their inherited wealth. Lady Katrina Hobhouse (top right) and Lee Macarthur-Onslow (inset) were caught in a bitter dispute over property ownership, including a block of fertile farm land in Sydney's south west known as Mount Gilead (bottom right). The siblings' litigation exposed slews of the dynasty's internals, but it didn't end until Mr Macarthur-Onslow's death last year. Lady Macarthur-Onslow's case is the first in a court action to find that the family matriarch struck her daughter over the head with a broom stick and a roll-up newspaper at the time of the controversy.