Season 1
2 episodes · 2009
Episode 1. Honour Among Thieves
2009-03-15 · 60 min
Historian Michael Cathcart introduces John Macarthur and the powerful faction of landowners, entrepreneurs and local military who take on Governor William Bligh and trigger Australia's only military coup, the Rum Rebellion of 1808.
Episode 2. Rights of Passage
2009-03-22 · 60 min
Historian Michael Cathcart introduces William Wentworth and the "Emancipists", a loose-knit group of former convicts and their children who take on British Governor Ralph Darling in the 1820s in a struggle for independence and civil…
