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

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

20111h 3mDocumentary

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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David TennantNarrator

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

Tom DevineHimself - University of Edinbugh (as Professor Tom Devine)

Clive RussellLachlan Macquarie

Julie Wilson NimmoElizabeth Macquarie

Lewis Fitz-GeraldCommissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

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