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MACQUARIE PARK is located 17 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Ryde. MACQUARIE PARK is part of the Lower North Shore and Northern Suburbs regions.

MACQUARIE PARK was part of the suburb of North Ryde and many businesses still use North Ryde as the address. Both suburbs share the 2113 postcode but Macquarie University, which is located at the northern part of the suburb, has its own postcode of 2109.

MACQUARIE PARK is a major centre for business in Australia and the state of New South Wales and has gained a reputation of being a leading high-tech industrial area in Australia. It attracts many local and international companies from high-tech fields including electronic, scientific, computing, medical, communication, pharmaceutical and business supply solutions. The corporate prestige, close access to facilities and aesthetically pleasing environment is an attraction for many corporations. It had a total number of 32 308 jobs in 2001, making it the fourth largest concentration of jobs in NSW after Sydney CBD, North Sydney and Parramatta.

MACQUARIE PARK has access to the M2 Hills Motorway, that runs through the northern part of the suburb. It is serviced by Shorelink, Busways, Forest Coach Lines, Sydney Buses, TransdevTSL and Hillsbus bus services.

MACQUARIE PARK railway station and Macquarie University railway station and North Ryde railway station are underground stations on the Epping to Chatswood rail line of the CityRail network. The line opened in February, 2009.

Macquarie University is one of Australia's largest universities. It features a 126 hectare park-like campus beside a high-technology corridor. The University is affiliated with a number of colleges also located in the suburb including Dunmore Lang College, Robert Menzies College, Macquarie Christian Studies Institute and Sydney Institute of Business & Technology

The Macquarie Centre is a major regional shopping Centre at Macquarie Park. The centre contains 250 retail stores over four-levels including Woolworths, Franklins, Myer, Target (Australia), Big W, Borders, JB Hi-Fi, as well as Greater Union cinema complex, and an ice rink. It is the regional shopping centre for northern districts and lower hills district.