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Australia's natural
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Jean Rice Architect | CONTEXT | GML Heritage

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
No. S141, 1 August 2007

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Old Government House in its setting of the former Governor's Domain is
significant as a cultural landscape of importance in Australia's history.
Although the Park has been reduced from the original 99.6 hectares to

85 hectares, allocated in 1856, it contains a number of historic elements that
have a tangible link with the earliest days of the foundation of British colonial
settlement of Australia, and that interlink with the landscape. These historical
elements include the Crescent, the governor's dairy, the bathhouse, memorials,
carriageways and gatehouses, and the remains of Governor Brisbane's
observatory. These historic elements demonstrate strong links with cultural
processes of importance in Australia's development from a penal colony
dependant on Great Britain to a self governing colony.

Old Government House provides evidence of the evolution of early colonial
and convict administration. The development of the house itself mirrors the
growth and complexity of these processes, both as the governor's home and as
the seat of administration, while the Domain and the Crescent mark the
commencement of agricultural production in Australia.

Other historic elements within the Domain provide evidence of the beginnings
of astronomical and botanical science in this country. Uniquely for a site of this
age in Australia, the pattern of use and living established by the early
governors is still clearly legible in the house and the surviving historic
elements in the landscape.

Old Government House and the Governor's Domain at Parramatta Park are
significant for their association with the life and work in Australia of the early
colonial governors. Governors Phillip, Hunter, King, Macquarie and Brisbane all
resided and worked at the house, and all have left their mark on the site through
their development of the fabric of the respective buildings and the enhancement
of the Domain. Old Government House and the Domain provide a remarkable
insight into the life and work of these governors. This insight is enhanced by the
wealth of information available about the site, both in terms of its documentation
and the pictorial representations and photographs of the various stages of its
development.

Section 11: Appendices
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Jean Rice Architect | CONTEXT | GML Heritage

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette Special Gazette 9
No. S141, 1 August 2007

NEW SOUTH WALES

Sydney City

Hyde Park Barracks:

Macquarie Street, corner Prince Albert Road, Sydney, comprising Lots 45 to 49 DP 47116, that
part of Lot 43 DP 47116 south of the alignment of the northernmost segment of the northern
boundary of Lot 49 DP 47116 and Lot 1 DP 48231.

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