1. I would like to thank Kate Murphy, Yves Rees, and the two peer reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. The UK research for this article was supported by the British Academy's Visiting Fellowships Programme under the UK Government's Rutherford Fund.
2. “There Is an Australian Colony in the BBC Today,” Argus (Melbourne), April 4, 1942, 3.
3. The British Empire comprised the Dominions, protectorates, colonies, and other territories brought under the sovereignty of the Crown of Great Britain and administered by the British government. The term “Commonwealth” dates from the first half of the twentieth century as former colonies became self-governing. The “British Commonwealth of Nations” was adopted officially at the 1926 Imperial Conference to designate the “autonomous communities within the British Empire,” and formalized through the Statute of Westminster in 1931. With the end of the empire after World War II, the free association of Britain and decolonized nations became known as the Commonwealth of Nations.
4. Tanu Priya Uteng and Tim Cresswell, “Gendered Mobilities: Towards an Holistic Understanding,” in Gendered Mobilities, ed. Tanu Priya Uteng and Tim Cresswell (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008), 5.
5. On radio and modernity see Bridget Griffen-Foley, “Modernity, Intimacy and Early Australian Commercial Radio,” in Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound, ed. Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon (Canberra: ANU ePress, 2007), 123–32. On mobility and modernity see Anne Rees, “Reading Australian Modernity: Unsettled Settlers and Cultures of Mobility,” History Compass 15, no. 11 (2017): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hic3.12429.