result of this change that demanded the publics attention. The Labor.
government immediately started an anti-war movement and soon enough had.
the Australian troops removed from Vietnam. This was a win as far as human.
rights groups were concerned, as the previous government had in-lawed.
compulsory conscription. But with compulsory conscription out-lawed and war.
becoming less glamorized the public of Australia became divided over the.
Labor governments decision which could make the domino theory a reality. .
Over the course of the years 1968 through 1973 which are the years when.
Dransfield was in his prime many significant historical events occurred that.
shaped Dransfield's emergence as a poet.
While many people living an alternative life style simply turned to drugs to.
escape the reality of the times, Dransfield lived the obtrusive 60's more.
energetically and analytically than most. Although Dransfield did also take.
drugs he was not as common as other fellow Australian's who chose to live an .
alternative life as he did not acquire the attitude that total ignorance to a time of.
hardship will make life more blissful. The fact that Dransfield did take drugs.
can be seen as possibly his greatest flaw, as those who read his poetry would.
find it hard to draw any moral lessons since Dransfield was a drug abuser. .
However, it is pointless to debate that Dransfield has no credibility on issues.
because he was a drug addict because it is well known that many great and.
inspirational writers were on drugs. It is however relevant to Dransfield's.
poetry that he took drugs, and even made it more effective as we the reader can.
be more influenced by a writer actually experiencing what he or she is.
passionately writing about, compared with say a poet who writes about events.
and issues not involved in there own life.
As a poet of the Sixties it was probably assumed that Dransfield was on drugs.
even if they didn't know the bare truth.
