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The PM's Daughter

A Fremantle Australia production for the ABC

Creators: Tristram Baumber & Matthew Allred
Executive Producers: Chris Oliver-Taylor, Tristram Baumber, Mary-Ellen Mullane
Producer: Alice Willison
Co-Producer: Kieran Hoyle
Writers: Tristram Baumber, Matthew Allred, Lou Sanz, Hannah Samuel, Angela McDonald, Craig Irvin, Gemma Bird Matheson, Magda Wozniak
Directors: Julietta Boscolo, Erin White, Alana Hicks

Airing: January 01-10, 2022 (ABC Me)

Catalina Parkes Pérez (Cat to her friends) is like any other teenager who wants to have her voice heard. There’s just one complication: her mother, Isabel, is the Prime Minister of Australia. Cat has always been someone who stands up for what she believes in, but her mum’s new job is putting a serious dent in her freedom to be who she wants to be. How can Cat make her voice heard when there’s so much pressure to support her mum and be “the perfect daughter”? As if all that weren’t enough, a series of stunts have started playing out across the national Capital, clearly aimed at sabotaging the Prime Minister. When blame falls on Cat’s activist heroes, Action Uprising, Cat decides to dig into unmasking an alternative group, the Agitators, who are really behind the stunts. Luckily for Cat, she has two new friends, Sadie and Ollie, to help her. (20x26min)