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Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia (2011)

NR | Jan 25, 2011 (US) | Documentary | 01:03

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.

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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)
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Clive Russell
Lachlan Macquarie
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Julie Wilson Nimmo
Elizabeth Macquarie
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Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)

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