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THE RACKET
HOW ABORTION BECAME LEGAL IN AUSTRALIA |
| By: |
Gideon Haigh |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£28.95 |
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£28.08 |
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£0.87 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0522855784 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780522855784 |
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| Publisher: |
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2008 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Abortion was one of Australia's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. This book describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and a public inquiry that humiliated a powerful government and a glamorous police force. |
| Synopsis: |
A generation ago in Australia, abortion was a crime. It was also the basis of one of the country's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. The Racket describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and a public inquiry that humiliated a powerful government and a glamorous police force. With forensic skill and psychological subtlety, Gideon Haigh brings to life a story of corruption in high places and human suffering in low, of murder, suicide, courtroom drama, political machinations, and of the abortionists themselves: among them a multi-millionaire philanthropist, a communist bush poet, a timid aesthete and a bankrupt slaughterman. It is the story, too, of Bertram Wainer, abortion's crash-through-or-crash campaigner, and the moral issue he bequeathed which still divides Australians. |
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Australia |
| Imprint: |
Melbourne University Press |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for NSW Premier's Literary Award Gleebooks Award for Cultural |
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