
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."

as Ben Chifley

as Robert Menzies

as H.V. Evatt

as B.A. Santamaria

as Arthur Fadden

as Les Hayden

as Fred Daly

as Allan Dalziel

as Joanna Malcolm

as Elizabeth Chifley

as Ethel Casey

as Sir William McKell

as John Dedman

as Rosalind Evatt

as John Burton

as Edgar Ross

as Ron Tate

as Jim Cooper

as Mary Alice Evatt

as Tom Burke

as Arthur Calwell

as Fred Daley

as Richard Casey

as Idris Williams

as Pattie Menzies

as Narrator

as Radio Announcer

as Bill Parkinson

as Lloyd Ross

as Elsie

as Garfield Barwick

as Mr. Purcell

as H.C. Coombs

as Tess Ross

as Jim Healy

as Archbishop Mannix

as Clyde Cameron

as Stan Keon

as Jim Comerford

as Wally

as Les McConnan


as Speaker of the House