[3] Tomasetti became involved in the Save Our Sons organisation, a group of women opposed to military conscription, and in December 1965 she helped to organise the "Songs of Peace and Love" protest concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, described as "the first major response of the folk scene" to Australia's military involvement in Vietnam.
In court she argued that Australia's participation in the Vietnam War violated its international legal obligations as a member of the United Nations.
[5] Public figures such as Joan Baez had made similar protests in the USA, but Tomasetti's prosecution was "believed to be the first case of its kind in Australia", according to a contemporary news report.
[2] In 1967, Tomaestti organised the first poetry readings at La Mama Theatre in Carlton, Melbourne, a program that continues today.
The poet and literary scholar Chris Wallace-Crabbe described it as "one of the break-through novels in portraying ordinary suburban life without a supercilious sneer".