[9] English travel writer Miss Gertrude Harnett has arrives in the small Queensland town of Kooreelba.
The development is part of the politician's plan to expand the town and further disposes the traditional land owners.
Reviewing the 1942 stage production Wireless Weekly said "Truly Australian in context, it [the play] has a strong emotional impact and handles an important problem with insight and sound dramatic form.
has always been exactly that defined by Matthew Arnold as impossible for art: merely “pitiable,” without the heroic conflict, physical or mental, that makes the stuff of tragedy.
to their being uprooted from a cherished camp ; there was no general struggle, only pathos and pity, and so nothing to lift the play from pro-paganda to tragedy.