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

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

Documentary

January 25, 20111h 3m

Overview

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.

Production

Screen AustraliaIntomediaScreen NSWCaledonia Productions

Cast

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)