Macquarie's record on treatment of Aboriginal people highlighted

By Justine Doherty
Updated February 15 2017 - 10:45am, first published 10:30am
Last weekend's attack on the statue of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in McQuade Park at Windsor has raised the issue of Macquarie's role in early Aboriginal massacres in the Hawkesbury. Picture: Paul Evans
Last weekend's attack on the statue of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in McQuade Park at Windsor has raised the issue of Macquarie's role in early Aboriginal massacres in the Hawkesbury. Picture: Paul Evans

THE spectacular attack on the statue of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in McQuade Park last weekend excited very different reactions from the community.