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The Racket

The Racket

Haigh, Gideon

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Australia & OceaniaGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0522855784
ISBN13: 9780522855784
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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