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Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia (2011)

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

01/25/2011 Documentary 1h 3m

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

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.