The Black Feather is a 1944 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay.
[2] According to ABC Weekly "The black feather is a symbol that has arisen during the present war.
"[3] Another account in the same magazine described it as such: "the story of an event long overdue In Australia—the housewives’ rebellion against black marketing.
"You remember the affair of the Black Feather, and how it swept Australia like a cleansing me.
Some say it first leapt up in Perth, others trace the origin to Goulburn, but as a matter of cold, hard fact, it all began in New Guinea.” [4]