About Macquarie University
Macquarie University is about discovery, learning and participation in a borderless world.
We are a dynamic, flexible and engaged university committed to excellence in research, teaching and global citizenship.
Macquarie’s 126 hectare park-like campus is an ideal setting in which to discover and learn. Our location within the high-technology corridor of Sydney’s north-west enables us to establish close relationships with some of the world’s most successful companies, many of whom are located in the University’s research park, and allows a collaborative approach to research and teaching to ensure Macquarie graduates are highly sought-after and command high starting salaries. It also provides our students with first class internship opportunities with world leading companies from a range of industries.
We are a dynamic, flexible and engaged university committed to excellence in research, teaching and global citizenship.
Macquarie’s 126 hectare park-like campus is an ideal setting in which to discover and learn. Our location within the high-technology corridor of Sydney’s north-west enables us to establish close relationships with some of the world’s most successful companies, many of whom are located in the University’s research park, and allows a collaborative approach to research and teaching to ensure Macquarie graduates are highly sought-after and command high starting salaries. It also provides our students with first class internship opportunities with world leading companies from a range of industries.
Tony Wheeler - Co-founder of Lonely Planet:
When Maureen and I arrived in Sydney the day after Christmas 1972, after a six month Asia overland trip from Europe, we had 27 cents left between us. In late 1973 we started Lonely Planet Publications to publish Across Asia on the Cheap, the story of our trip from London to Australia. We spent the following year travelling around South-East Asia and in early 1975 published our second book, South-East Asia on a Shoestring.
From those early guidebooks Lonely Planet Publications has grown to become the world’s largest independent guidebook publisher with more than 500 titles in print, over 400 staff and offices in London and Oakland as well as the head office in Melbourne. Last year we sold a majority interest in Lonely Planet to BBC-Worldwide, but we’re still closely involved with the company and regularly travel to check out our books and other travel products, investigate new travel possibilities or simply to experience something new. In early 2009 I hit the road with a film crew from Lonely Planet TV to film the Laos program for our forthcoming series The Roads Less Travelled.
From those early guidebooks Lonely Planet Publications has grown to become the world’s largest independent guidebook publisher with more than 500 titles in print, over 400 staff and offices in London and Oakland as well as the head office in Melbourne. Last year we sold a majority interest in Lonely Planet to BBC-Worldwide, but we’re still closely involved with the company and regularly travel to check out our books and other travel products, investigate new travel possibilities or simply to experience something new. In early 2009 I hit the road with a film crew from Lonely Planet TV to film the Laos program for our forthcoming series The Roads Less Travelled.
