Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia
"In ten years he turned a prison colony into the foundation of a nation"
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• 2011 • 63 min • Released Documentary
Overview
Biography of Lachlan Macquarie and his wife, Elizabeth, who arrived to govern the colony of New South Wales in Australia in 1810. In just over a decade, the couple transformed the prison colony into a proto nation.
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Cast
David Tennant
Narrator
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Grace Karskens
Herself - University of New South Wales (as Professor Grace Karskens)
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Tom Devine
Himself - University of Edinbugh (as Professor Tom Devine)
Clive Russell
Lachlan Macquarie
Julie Wilson Nimmo
Elizabeth Macquarie
Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)
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Intomedia
Caledonia Productions