First Dismissal: Penguin Special

While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the ''fair go''. Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person''s worth – be they gentry, infantry or convict – lay in what they were capable of doing, not what they had done in the past. He freed the brilliant,...