The True Believers
First air date: 1988-06-28

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The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."


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Ed Devereaux

as Ben Chifley

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John Bonney

as Robert Menzies

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Simon Chilvers

as H.V. Evatt

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John Derum

as B.A. Santamaria

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Graham Rouse

as Arthur Fadden

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Nick Tate

as Les Hayden

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Gary Files

as Fred Daly

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Stuart McCreery

as Allan Dalziel

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Mary-Lou Stewart

as Joanna Malcolm

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Dorothy St. Heaps

as Elizabeth Chifley

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Leonie-Martin Smith

as Ethel Casey

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Hec Macmillan

as Sir William McKell

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Peter Corbett

as John Dedman

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Michelle Marzo

as Rosalind Evatt

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Paul Hunt

as John Burton

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Harold Hopkins

as Edgar Ross

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Paul Sonkkila

as Ron Tate

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Bill Young

as Jim Cooper

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Valerie Bader

as Mary Alice Evatt

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Ray Meagher

as Tom Burke

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