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• Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Bligh
• Noni Hazelhurst as Elizabeth Goddard
• Brett Climo as George Bligh
• Craig Hall as Dr. Jack Duncan
• David Berry as James Bligh
• Abby Earl as Anna Bligh
• Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood as Olivia Bligh
• Sara Wiseman as Carolyn Duncan
• Tim Draxl as Dr. Henry Fox
• Deborah Kennedy as Doris Collins
• Dominic Allburn as Harry Polson
• Frankie J. Holden as Roy Briggs

Recurring & Guest

• Elliot Domoney as David Bligh
• Madeleine Clunies-Ross as Leah Gold
• Conrad Coleby as Matthew Goddard
• Clodagh Crowe as Dawn Briggs

The series finale episode focuses on events happening in the week between Christmas day 1959 and New Year's Day 1960. On Christmas Day, George and Sarah host a party for many of their friends and family, including Elizabeth, Roy, Doris, Jack, and a visiting Frank Gibbs. At Prudence's home, a smaller contingent gathers, including Carolyn, Anna, Olivia, Andrew, Delia, Henry, and Harry. All of the Bligh's family and friends are happy with the new directions their lives are taking, with the exception of Jack and Carolyn, who are both miserable. During the lead-up to the new year, a number of significant changes occur. George, Sarah, and David prepare for Israel. Jack decides to go to Burma to reflect on his wartime service. Carolyn suddenly returns to Inverness to confront Jack and asks to go with him to Burma. Elizabeth confides in Sarah that she has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Delia leaves Prudence as all the interior design work has been completed in the Swanson home. As the new year dawns, Harry and Henry profess their love for each other, while Jack finally accepts Carolyn's olive branch.

The final scene at the dawn of 1960 is succeeded by a series of shots wrapping up the characters' stories:

• Elizabeth passed in her sleep in 1963. Her chosen epitaph was "Life is a blessing. To die fulfilled an even greater one."
• Roy was invaluable to Ash Park and to the Dawn Briggs Community Clinic, until his death in 1975.
• Lucky yipped his last bark at age 17, head on Roy's lap.
• Emma becomes an obstetrician. "She saved many, as her mother had not been saved."
• Doris marries a new employee of Ash Park. "She had twenty married years, being loved as she deserved."
• Leah marries Larry. Their daughter marries Frank Gibbs' son.
• Jack and Carolyn are shown travelling to Burma. Carolyn later becomes Inverness's first female MP. Jack received an Order of Australia for his services to rural medicine. "They died within days of each other. Their loved indeed lasted forever."
• Anna lived happily, but never remarried. "She had one daughter and many children -- born through her writing."
• James and Olivia stayed close until his death from AIDS in 1986.
• Georgie became a championship surfer, before joining James' business in Europe.
• Andrew proved worthy of Olivia's love and they remain married until his death.
• Henry and Harry remain together and marry each other in January 2018 after Australia legalizes same-sex marriage, both by then in their nineties.
• George passes away at the age of eighty. "His whole life proved that decency is not a weakness."
• David became master of Ash Park.

The final scene is of Sarah's death at the age of 104, surrounded by David, Olivia, and Leah. On her nightstand is a copy of a book entitled A Place to Call Home, written by a Samantha Swanson, Andrew and Olivia's granddaughter.