Santa Claus of Christmas Creek is a 1938 Australian radio play by Ernestine Hill.
[4] According to Leslie Rees, " It shows the fearsome loneliness of that far life, where nevertheless the station owner’s wife, forlorn in childlessness, is determined to celebrate Christmas as she has known it, by giving the blacks on her station a good time, with baccy and sweets and fireworks and prizes.
There is something ineffably touching about the fall of her jaw as her husband insists that Christmas goings-on depend on the arrival of Billy Bond’s truck, and there are two creeks down already and the river’s coming up.
"Joe Hackett and Janet, his wife, live on an isolated station, awaiting the rains, but also hoping to have a good time at Christmas — providing the stores arrive.
The other characters are Lorimer, a prospector, whose wife has just died and left a tiny baby on his hands; a camp of blacks; and Dolly-pot Mick, a curious old “hatter,” whose long life in the raw bush has made him both a comic and pathetic figure.