NSW Parliament

This guide to NSW Parliament in Sydney opens with Darcy Wentworth, a London surgeon accused of highway robbery four times and cleared each time, who sailed to New South Wales rather than risk a fifth trial. It follows how he became one of the colony's richest men through a deal with Governor Lachlan Macquarie: build a hospital in exchange for a monopoly on importing rum. You'll hear about the convicts who built it and the colony's own architect who predicted it would soon fall to ruin. Look up at the surviving Georgian colonnade as you listen.