The Black Feather

The Black Feather is a 1944 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay. It was a propaganda play for World War Two.

It originally aired in 1944 and was produced again in 1945, directed by Frank Harvey.

Premise
According to ABC Weekly "The black feather is a symbol that has arisen during the present war. The white feather came to mean cowardice in the days of the cockpit, because a white feather in a game-cock was the sign of a cross-breed in birds, and suggested that the cock was no good for fighting. To learn what the black feather stands for listeners must tune in."

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.”