Australian Walkabout (radio program)

We heard descriptions of their work by men and women at their benches; from shipyards, aircraft factories, and food-processing plants.

Instead of presentation being confined to a city studio, broadcasting equipment is taken to the country, where first-hand interviews are obtained and local history recorded.

"[5] For "Death Rite for Mabalung," broadcast on the interstate network on 15 March 1949, Simpson recorded a mourning ceremony at Delissaville, in the Northern Territory.

"[7] Other contributors included Dymphna Cusack who in 1947 wrote and presented Newcastle : Blood on Coal;[8] Bulletin cartoonist Oswald Pryor, who contributed to a series on copper mining at Moonta, South Australia;[9] novelist George Farwell ("Mildura : They Built Upon Sand").

The broadcasts include; Australian Walkabout was frequently the subject of congratulatory letters in the ABC Weekly, some remarking on the educational value of the program.