Episode 1 S01 E01

Ed Devereaux (as Ben Chifley) John Bonney (as Robert Menzies) Simon Chilvers (as H.V. Evatt) Graham Rouse (as Arthur Fadden) Nick Tate (as Les Hayden) Gary Files (as Fred Daly) Harold Hopkins (as Edgar Ross) Paul Sonkkila (as Ron Tate) Bill Young (as Jim Cooper) Valerie Bader (as Mary Alice Evatt) Ray Meagher (as Tom Burke) John Ewart (as Fred Daley) Bryan Marshall (as Richard Casey) Joan Bruce (as Pattie Menzies) Kevin Golsby (as Narrator) Kenneth Radley (as Bill Parkinson) Danny Adcock (as Lloyd Ross) Diane Craig (as Elsie) Robin Bowering (as Mr. Purcell) Tracy Mann (as Tess Ross) Norman Kaye (as Archbishop Mannix) Rob Steele (as Clyde Cameron) Bob Baines (as Stan Keon) Gerry Duggan (as Wally) Colin Borgonon

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