Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

Name: Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-01-25
Duration: 63 min
Cast: David Tennant, Grace Karskens, Tom Devine, Clive Russell, Julie Wilson Nimmo

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

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2011

1h 3m

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.

Cast

David Tennant

Narrator

Grace Karskens

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

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)