Movie

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

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

20111h 3mDocumentary

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.

Cast

David Tennant
as Narrator

Clive Russell
as Lachlan Macquarie

Lewis Fitz-Gerald
as Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)

Julie Wilson Nimmo
as Elizabeth Macquarie

Tom Devine
as Himself - University of Edinbugh (as Professor Tom Devine)

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