Basic Info

First Air: June 28, 1988

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Last Episode

Name: Episode 8

Season: 1, Episode: 8

Air Date: 1988-08-16

Runtime: 60 min

Following the Petov Affair, Evatt promises pension rises, the abolition of means tests and tax cuts. Noone believes him (even in his own party) and Menzies wins again. Disaffected Victorian ALP members split the party to form the DLP.

The True Believers

1988 1 seasons 8 episodes

Overview

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."