Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia (2011)

Documentary1 hour and 3 minutes
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In ten years he turned a prison colony into the foundation of a nation

Description

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.

Actors

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)
Status

Released

Original language

English

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