Fifty-five years ago, in June 1967, Australia took part in a significant world event made possible by space technology: the first global satellite broadcast, connecting 14 countries on six continents in a live international television program. While instantaneous worldwide communication via satellite is now a part of everyday life, the Our World broadcast, coming just 10 years after the launch of Sputnik-1, was seen as a demonstration of how far and how fast space technology had progressed in the first decade of the Space Age. Its estimated audience of more than 400 million in 31 countries was not surpassed until the broadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon landing two years later. While today Our World is primarily remembered for The Beatles’ first performance of their anthem All You Need is Love, the broadcast was planned, though ultimately not realised, as a bridge between East and West during the Cold War. This paper will outline the origins of Our World as an initiative of the BBC, and the technical challenge that it presented to the recently-established INTELSAT satellite communications consortium, of which Australia was a founding member. It will focus on Australia’s particular role in the broadcast, which involved the most technically complex operation of the entire program, accomplished via NASA’s tracking station at Cooby Creek, near Toowoomba in Queensland. The paper will describe the three segments that Australia presented at different points within the program, highlighting daily life and Australia’s achievements in science and technology, and consider its place in the early history of Australian space activities.