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Aussie Life

Aussie life

24 February 2024

9:00 AM

24 February 2024

9:00 AM

Surprisingly, perhaps, it was only 20 years after the Union flag was first raised in Sydney Cove that white Australians became conscious of a societal gap. Less surprisingly, it was the man who had already helped address the fledgling colony’s most pressing security, economic and spiritual needs – by designing Hyde Park Barracks, the Macquarie Lighthouse and a couple of churches – who offered to close that gap.

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