Drain wrote a column in the AWW for sixteen years. As a war correspondent, she developed strong anti-war views, and in 1950 wrote: War is no place for anybody, man or woman, and if humanity cannot find some more sensible way of settling its arguments it doesn't deserve to survive. [Dorothy Drain, 'It seems to me', Australian Women's Weekly, 14 October 1950, p. 23] Copyright Australian Womens' Weekly