Michael Dransfield's Poem 'Outback'

Michael Dransfield was a contemporary Australian poet in the late 1960’s early 1970’s, he was recognised for his first published collection ‘Streets of the Long Vouge’. His poem “outback” is a typical of his ability to explore the Australian environment and how it is rapidly changing. In this poem Australians are represented as short-sighted and greedy individuals. Using poetic techniques and dramatic language, Dransfield looks into the truth of Australia present and future.
Dransfield describes the Aboriginal culture and foreign investment as a significant subject matter for his poem. He describes the Aboriginals leaving their tribes sacred land and moving to the city in order to get jobs and government funding. Dransfield also describes