Pitched Battle
in the frontline of the 1971 Springbok tour of Australia
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2016
Scribe Publications (Verlag)
978-1-925228-74-8 (ISBN)
Scribe Publications (Verlag)
978-1-925228-74-8 (ISBN)
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A vivid story of the men and women who took a stand when sport mixed with politics.
In 1971, when the racially selected all-white Springbok rugby team toured Australia, it became a nation at war with itself. 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 ultimately made heroes of the seven Wallabies who refused to play, played a key role in the later political careers of Peter Beattie, Meredith Burgmann, and Peter Hain, and ultimately led to the abandonment of apartheid.
In 1971, when the racially selected all-white Springbok rugby team toured Australia, it became a nation at war with itself. 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 ultimately made heroes of the seven Wallabies who refused to play, played a key role in the later political careers of Peter Beattie, Meredith Burgmann, and Peter Hain, and ultimately led to the abandonment of apartheid.
Larry Writer is an experienced journalist, author and publisher. His books include Razor (now a major TV series — Underbelly Razor), Never Before, Never Again, First Blood, Bumper: the life and times of Frank ‘Bumper’ Farrell, The Australian Book of True Crime, Pleasure and Pain (the biography of Chrissy Amphlett), Garden of Evil, and Winning. Larry has also ghost-written several autobiographies.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.12.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | pp. b/w image section |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-925228-74-6 / 1925228746 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-925228-74-8 / 9781925228748 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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