
Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia (2011)
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Jan 25, 2011 (US)
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Documentary
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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.
Featured Crew
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)