Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia (In ten years he turned a prison colony into the foundation of a nation)

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.

Top 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)