Racket: How Abortion Became Legal
Author(s): HAIGH Gideon
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Melbourne University Publishing
- : Melbourne University Press
- : 0.34473
- : 01 September 2008
- : .7 Inches X 6.14 Inches X 9.13 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : HAIGH Gideon
- : TP
- : 1
- : English
- : 288
- : JFMA