The Breaking of the Drought

Wallaby Station in the outback is devastated by drought The sheep are starving but Jo Galloway Charles Beetham and his wife Nan Taylor battle on Their son Gilbert Rawdon Blandford falls in with the wrong crowd while studying medicine in Sydney conman Varsy Lyddleton John Faulkner and the seductress Olive Lorette Marie La Varre Gilbert forges his mothers cheques to pay for Olives favours ruining the family A bank takes friendly possession of Wallaby Station Gilberts sister Marjorie Trilby Clark keeps her brother out of jail but he becomes a tramp after Lyddleton murders Olive and kills himself Marjories suitor Tom Wattleby Dunstan Webb saves Gilbert from a bushfire just as the drought breaks restoring the familys fortunes Marjorie and Tom can now wed as the sheep and cattle fatten on rich pasture