[2] Before the production aired, the script won the 1967 Dame Mary Gilmore Medal awarded in March 1968.
[3] Judges called it "a superbly funny comment with a strong Australian history allegory on present attitudes to domestic and foreign affairs.
Academic Susan Lever wrote: On my first viewing I was appalled by the slow pace and sheer crudity of this television offering.
With further viewings, though, I find it clever and experimental—at least, it’s evidence that there was more than ‘naturalism’ on television in the early decades.
At the same time, there’s not a trace of that ‘it could be you’ identification with the audience; nor any claims for documentary accuracy whatever... It’s clearly based in the tradition of satirical revue, but it is more sustained and serious than the sketch comedies that now constitute television’s version of that tradition.