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Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

"In ten years he turned a prison colony into the foundation of a nation"

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.

Top Cast

  • David Tennant

    David Tennant

    Narrator

  • Grace Karskens

    Grace Karskens

    Herself - University of New South Wales (as Professor Grace Karskens)

  • Tom Devine

    Tom Devine

    Himself - University of Edinbugh (as Professor Tom Devine)

  • Clive Russell

    Clive Russell

    Lachlan Macquarie

  • Julie Wilson Nimmo

    Julie Wilson Nimmo

    Elizabeth Macquarie

  • Lewis Fitz-Gerald

    Lewis Fitz-Gerald

    Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)

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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