The classic Australian political TV miniseries "True Believers", written by Bob Ellis.
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."
Cast
Ed Devereaux as Ben Chifley
Simon Chilvers as H.V. Evatt
John Bonney as Robert Menzies
Rob Steele as Clyde Cameron
John Derum as B.A. Santamaria
Max Phipps as Sir Frank Packer
Valerie Bader as Mary Alice Evatt
Tracy Mann as Tess Ross
Joan Bruce as Pattie Menzies
Malcolm Robertson as Idris Williams
John Ewart as Fred Daley
Ray Meagher as Tom Burke
Harold Hopkins as Edgar Ross
Nick Tate as Les Hayden
Gary Files as Fred Daly
Diane Craig as Elsie
Norman Kaye as Archbishop Daniel Mannix
Ron Blanchard as Arthur Calwell
Danny Adcock as Lloyd Ross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Believers_%28TV_series%29
