[10] Like other noted Australian sopranos, such as Elsie Mary Fischer (1881–1945) ("Elsa Stralia"), Vera Honor Hempseed (1890–1952)[11][12] ("Madame Vera Tasma", after Tasmania), Helen Porter Mitchell (1861–1931) ("Nellie Melba", after Melbourne), Dorothy Mabel Thomas (1896–1978) ("Dorothy Canberra"), Florence Ellen Towl (1870–1952) ("Madame Ballara", after Ballarat), and Florence Mary Wilson (1892–1968) ("Florence Austral"),[13] June Mary Gough adopted the stage name "June Bronhill" (after Broken Hill), which was her way of thanking her home town for its support in raising money to send her overseas for professional training as a singer.

She also sang leading roles in Die Fledermaus,[21] The Gypsy Baron, Menotti's The Telephone, Flotow's Martha and Hansel and Gretel.

[22] Her roles in Offenbach's operas, with the Sadler's Wells company, included Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld and Gabrielle in La Vie parisienne.

She also appeared in England in tours of two Ivor Novello musicals, Glamorous Night and The Dancing Years, the latter playing a season at the Saville Theatre in London.

She also appeared as the Mother Abbess in the 1981 London revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music at the Apollo Victoria Theatre.

She also had roles in The Maid of the Mountains, Call Me Madam, A Little Night Music, Nunsense, My Fair Lady and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as well as appearing in the non-musical plays Arsenic and Old Lace and Straight and Narrow.

[31] Opera News noted that "Bronhill's crisp, bright prettiness and crystalline diction made her an ideal exponent of operetta heroines".

Bronhill was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1976 New Year Honours,[37] and was later given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Australian Variety Club.