The True Believers

TV Series

1988

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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."

Tue, 28 Jun, 1988
S1.E1Episode 1
Just before the end of WWII, John Curtin lays on his deathbed. Who will fill the position? Brilliant legal mind, "Doc" Evatt or unschooled train driver Ben Chifley? With an election to face in 1946, the Labor Party needs to choose wisely.
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Tue, 05 Jul, 1988
S1.E2Episode 2
With a supposed Communist uprising in the coal industry moves are afoot to abolish the party from the Liberal side, but also to nationalise the banks from Labor. The High Court finds that nationalising the banks is not constitutional.
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Ed Devereaux
Ben Chifley
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John Bonney
Robert Menzies
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Simon Chilvers
H.V. Evatt
John Derum
B.A. Santamaria
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Graham Rouse
Arthur Fadden
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Nick Tate
Les Hayden
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Gary Files
Fred Daly
Stuart McCreery
Allan Dalziel
Mary-Lou Stewart
Joanna Malcolm
Dorothy St. Heaps
Elizabeth Chifley
Hec Macmillan
Sir William McKell
Peter Corbett
John Dedman
Michelle Marzo
Rosalind Evatt
Paul Hunt
John Burton
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Harold Hopkins
Edgar Ross
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Bill Young
Jim Cooper

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Release date

June 28, 1988 (United States)

Country of origin

Australia

Language

English

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