Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 25, 2011

Runtime

1h 3m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

Production Companies

Screen Australia, Intomedia, Screen NSW, Caledonia Productions

Description

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.