Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

63 mins | Documentary | Jan. 25, 2011

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.

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

63 mins | Documentary | Jan. 25, 2011

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia
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.
Producers Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Intomedia, Caledonia Productions
Original title Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia
Directors
Writers

Cast

David Tennant

as Narrator

Grace Karskens

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

Tom Devine

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

Clive Russell

as Lachlan Macquarie

Julie Wilson Nimmo

as Elizabeth Macquarie

Lewis Fitz-Gerald

as Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)