"I remember hitchhiking back from Sydney on a rainy day in the middle of 1972 and I got picked up by a young fellow not much older than me and we got talking and we got on well and I started blabbing about all the safe houses there were and the network of succour that we draft resisters could depend on and then conversation lapsed and after a while to renew it I said oh and what did you say it was you did again and he said ah I didn't say. I said well what is it you do and he said I'm a Commonwealth policeman Alan and I said ah. We drove on in silence for a bit and he could have taken me straight to the Canberra Watch House, it would have been his duty to do so but he didn't. He dropped me at the Queanbeyan turn off and he said don't let us get you and drove off into the night and I was rather grateful for that".

ALAN GOULD, PROTESTER