There are many people who could be called the "second founder of the colony in N.S.W" to see who should be given the privelage of having this name we must find out what characteristics the second founder should require. In this essay the second founder requires these attributes leadership skills, foresight, good communicator, and decisive. This essay's information points towards that Lachlan Macquarie should have the honour of being called the "founder of the colony in N.S.W".

As soon as Macquarie came to govern Australia in 1810 he exterminated the N.S.W. corps (rum corps) because he brought his own highlanders. This ended the rum corps destruction of the farmers. The farmers were now allowed to sell their crops to the other people ... Showed first 120 words of 865 Size (words) ...

... Continuing with another 115 out of 865 Size (words) ...the development of the colony. Macquarie gave the ex-convicts land to farm on but Bigge didn't think they deserved it. Macquarie made roads and made the colony look neat and tidy but Bigge thought it was just a convict colony so it had no need to be clean. Macquarie saw a future in the colony as a normal settlement in the future but Bigge kept thinking that this colony would never grow and would just be used just for convicts. Bigge's report delivered nasty comments about everything Macquarie did to improve the colony. This brought Macquarie's resignation in 1821 because Macquarie thought everything that he did was not appreciated. Macquarie wrote a report showing ...Essay still continues 100 more words...