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The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia
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The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia Paperback - 2009

by Gideon Haigh


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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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  • Title The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia
  • Author Gideon Haigh
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Melbourne University, Carlton South Vic, Austria
  • Date 2009-04
  • ISBN 9780522855784 / 0522855784
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Australian
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
  • Library of Congress subjects Women - Australia - Social conditions, Abortion - Australia - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008425695
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.460

About the author

Born in London and based in Melbourne, Gideon Haigh has been a journalist almost thirty years, and written widely on business, sport, both and neither.
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