It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war.
"[3] The idea for the mini series and the title came from Bob Ellis, who pitched it to Matt Carroll at Channel Ten.
Carroll commissioned Ellis and Stephen Ramsey to write it, originally as a feature film.
Carroll took the project to Sandra Levy at the ABC and she agreed to make it provided it was done on videotape.
[7] Jim McCelland said "while I am prepared to concede that I may be an atypically political animal I have to report that I experienced not a moment of boredom in watching the eight hour mini-series...