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Macquarie may have said that he only wanted to let ex-convicts be readmitted to their previous rank in society, but everyone could see it was much more than that. To Macquarie, your previous ‘rank’ in the British social hierarchy didn’t matter. If you made a great success of yourself and your operations in NSW, Macquarie welcomed you. This would cause problems for Macquarie among the ‘Exclusives’ within the new colony and, eventually, with the Colonial Office in Britain.