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Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

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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.

Status: Released

Released Date: 2011-01-25

Runtime: 63 mins

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Spoken language: English

Genres: Documentary

Original title: Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

Production Companies: Screen Australia, Intomedia, Screen NSW, Caledonia Productions

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Narrator

David Tennant

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

Grace Karskens

Himself - University of Edinbugh (as Professor Tom Devine)

Tom Devine

Lachlan Macquarie

Clive Russell

Elizabeth Macquarie

Julie Wilson Nimmo

Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)

Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

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