In 1939 ABC General Manager Charles Moses decided to amalgamate all children's programs emanating from Sydney.
[3] Time and her contract allowed her to continue to act starring parts in: Osbourne developed a new segment for the Children's Session that was to go down in Australian radio history: The Argonauts Club.
She remembered BBC productions as highly polished but inward-looking and ossified in the 1930s, as compared with her bright and innovative Australian program.
[10] She returned again to run a more personal (and at times controversial) program At Home with Ida Elizabeth Jenkins.
She married again, and as Ida Elizabeth Lea was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1977.