
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."
Ben Chifley

Robert Menzies

H.V. Evatt

B.A. Santamaria
Arthur Fadden

Les Hayden

Fred Daly

Allan Dalziel
Joanna Malcolm
Elizabeth Chifley
Ethel Casey
Sir William McKell
John Dedman
Rosalind Evatt
John Burton
Edgar Ross

Ron Tate

Jim Cooper

Mary Alice Evatt

Tom Burke

Arthur Calwell
Fred Daley

Richard Casey

Idris Williams
Pattie Menzies

Narrator

Radio Announcer
Bill Parkinson

Lloyd Ross

Elsie

Garfield Barwick
Mr. Purcell

H.C. Coombs
Tess Ross

Jim Healy
Archbishop Mannix

Clyde Cameron

Stan Keon

Jim Comerford
Wally

Les McConnan
Unknown Role

Speaker of the House