Macquarie University

Macqarie University

macquarie university was formally established in 1964 with the passage of the macquarie university act 1964 by the new south wales parliament. the university was designed in the brutalist style and developed by the renowned town planner Walter Abraham who also oversaw the next 20 years of planning and development for the university. A committee appointed to advise the state government on the establishment of the new university at North Ryde nominated Abraham as the architect-planner.the fledgling macquarie university council decided that planing for the campus would be done within the university,rather than by consultants, and this led to the establishment of the architect-planners office.

the idea of founding a third university in Sydney was flagged in the early 1960s when the new south wales government formed a committee of enquiry into higher education to deal with a perceived emergency in university enrollments in new south wales. during this enquiry the senate of the university of Sydney put in a submission which highlighted  the immediate need to establish a third university in the metropolitan area. after much debate a future campus location was selected in what was then a semi-rural part of north Ryde, and it was decided that the future university be named after Lachlan Macquarie, an important early governor of the colony of new south wales.

During 2007,Macquarie university restructured its student organisation after an audit raised questions about management of hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds by student organisations. at the  center of the investigation was victor Ma.president of the Macquarie university students council, who was previously involved in a high-profile case of student election fixing at the university of Sydney. the university council resolved to immediately remove ma from his position.vice-chancellor schwarlz cited an urgent need to reform macquaries main student bodies.however,ma strongly denied any wrong doing and labelled the controversy  a case of character  assassination .the federal court ordered on 23 may 2007 that macquqrie university union ltd be wound up.