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Pitched battle : in the frontline of the 1971 Springbok tour of Australia

Title
  1. Pitched battle : in the frontline of the 1971 Springbok tour of Australia / Larry Writer.
Published by
  1. Melbourne : Scribe Publications, 2016.
Author
  1. Writer, Larry

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Description
  1. 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. In 1971, when the racially selected all-white Springbok rugby team toured Australia, we became a nation at war with ourselves. There was bloodshed as tens of thousands of anti-Apartheid campaigners clashed with governments, police, and rugby fans--who were given free reign to assault protestors. Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen declared a State of Emergency. Prime minister William McMahon called the Wallabies who refused to play 'national disgraces'. Barbed wire ringed the great rugby grounds to stop protestors invading the field.Pitched Battle recreates what became of the most rancorous periods in modern Australian history--a time of courage, pain, faith, fanaticism, and political opportunism--which made heroes of the Wallabies who refused to play, played a key role in the later political careers of Peter Beattie, Meredith Burgmann, and Peter Hain, and ultimately contributed to the abandonment of Apartheid.
Subject
  1. Anti-apartheid movements > Australia > History
  2. Apartheid
  3. Springboks (Rugby team)
  4. 1900-1999
  5. History
  6. Australia
  7. Rugby football players > Political activity > Australia
  8. Rugby Union football > Australia > History
  9. Australian
  10. Wallabies (Rugby team)
  11. Discrimination in sports
  12. Rugby Union football > Tournaments
  13. Racism in sports
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Call number
  1. Sc E 17-760
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Author
  1. Writer, Larry, author.
Title
  1. Pitched battle : in the frontline of the 1971 Springbok tour of Australia / Larry Writer.
Publisher
  1. Melbourne : Scribe Publications, 2016.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological term
  1. 1900-1999
Indexed term
  1. Australian
ISBN
  1. 9781925321616 (paperback)
  2. 1925321614 (paperback)
  3. 1925228746 (paperback)
  4. 9781925228748 (paperback)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 17-760
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