Written and produced by Jack Davey, The Australia Story was broadcast over two nights as part of 2GB's Calling in the Stars programme. Opening with 'Waltzing Matilda,' it celebrates the growth of the Australian colony in music, song and drama. The show was organised on behalf of the Austerity Loan Appeal.
In its preview of the show, the Australian Women's Weekly records: 'The early pioneers, the governors, the industrialists and settlers and the part they played in the young Colony will be dramatically pictures, and there will be a special episode dealing with the life of Sir Henry Parkes' (12 December 1942, p.18).
Surprisingly, the second half of the programme broadcast on Thursday 10 December comprised a dramatization of 'The Jervis Bay Goes Down" (1941), a narrative poem by American writer Gene Fowler about the sinking of the British liner by a German battleship in 1940.
