The True Believers
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."
Episodes
Cast
Ed Devereaux
as Ben Chifley
John Bonney
as Robert Menzies
Simon Chilvers
as H.V. Evatt
John Derum
as B.A. Santamaria
Graham Rouse
as Arthur Fadden
Nick Tate
as Les Hayden
Gary Files
as Fred Daly
Stuart McCreery
as Allan Dalziel
Mary-Lou Stewart
as Joanna Malcolm
Dorothy St. Heaps
as Elizabeth Chifley
