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at the ABC and she agreed to make it provided it was done on videotape. If it was shot on film the estimated cost would be $ 5.6 million but on video it could be done for $ 3.4 million. It would be shown on the ABC for the
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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
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