David Williamson remains Australia's foremost playwright and while some of his works have aged somewhat over the decades, David Williamson plays were a key part of the English curriculum in Australian highschools in the 1980s, which is where and when I got to read "Don's Party".

Covering the night of the 1969 Australian election, at a commiseration party for Australian Labor Party supporters at Don's, "Don's Party" has the usual middle-class issues, including a discussion around socialism and life in middle-class Australia in the late 1960s, which sounded dire. ( )