Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

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

20111h 3m

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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Cast

Photo of Clive Russell

Clive Russell

Lachlan Macquarie

Photo of Julie Wilson Nimmo

Julie Wilson Nimmo

Elizabeth Macquarie

Photo of Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)

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