Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia
“In ten years he turned a prison colony into the foundation of a nation”
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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.
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Edited by Jackie PowellShot by Joel PetersonScored by Antony Partos
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17 unique people credited
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Grace Karskens
as Self - University of New South Wales
Tom Devine
as Self - University of Edinbugh
Meg Douglass
as Self - Local Historian Mull
Robin Walsh
as Self - Macquarie University
Jo Currie
as Self - Author, 'Mull the Island and its People'
Alan Atkinson
as Self - St Paul's College University of Sydney
Paul Brunton
as Self - State Library of New South Wales
Marie Sullivan
as Self - Architect of 'Macquarie 2010'
David Tennant
as Narrator
Marie Bashir
as Self - Governor of New South Wales
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