Pitched battle : in the frontline of the 1971 springbok tour of australia / Larry Writer
- Bib ID:
- 8037812
- Format:
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- Author:
- Writer, Larry, author
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- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- [Brunswick, Victoria] : Scribe, 2016
- Brunswick, Vic. : Scribe Publications, 2016
- 1 online resource (329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ) : illustrations.
- ISBN:
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- 1925307654
- 9781925307658
- Summary:
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A vivid story of the men and women who took a stand when sport mixed with politicsIn 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.
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- Intro; About the Author; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; WHAT WAS LOST; PART ONE; 1 THE EDUCATION OF JIM BOYCE; 2 GETTING ORGANISED; 3 ANTHONY ABRAHAMS STANDS UP; 4 CONFRONTING APARTHEID; 5 A LETTER HOME; 6 THE RUGBY SEVEN; 7 CHOOSING SIDES; 8 THE 'MADDIES' AND THE 'SENSIBLES'; 9 TESTING THE WATERS; 10 BATTLE LINES; 11 A PROTESTER'S PRIMER; PART TWO; 12 THE WILD WEST; 13 NO CHARITY IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES; 14 CHAOS BY THE YARRA; 15 'I SAW PURE HATRED IN THEIR FACES'; 16 INTERLUDE IN ORANGE; 17 STATE OF OVER-REACTION; 18 BACK TO REALITY; 19 PUNISHMENT IN THE CAPITAL.
- 20 POLICE STATE21 LAST HURRAH; 22 DEAR SIR DONALD; WHAT WAS WON; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Subject:
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- Springboks (Rugby team)
- Wallabies (Rugby team)
- Anti-apartheid activists -- Australia -- History
- Anti-apartheid movements -- Australia -- History
- Apartheid -- Government policy -- Australia
- Apartheid -- South Africa -- History
- Discrimination in sports -- Australia
- Racism in sports -- Australia
- Rugby football players -- Political activity -- Australia
- Rugby Union football -- Australia -- History
- Discrimination dans les sports -- Australie
- Joueurs de rugby -- Activité politique -- Australie
- Mouvements anti-apartheid -- Australie -- Histoire
- Racisme dans les sports -- Australie
- Rugby à quinze -- Australie -- Histoire
- Anti-apartheid movements
- Australia
- Demonstrations & protest movements
- Discrimination in sports
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- History of sport
- Human rights
- International relations
- Political Science - International Relations - General
- Political Science - Political Freedom & Security - General
- Political Science / Human Rights
- Racism in sports
- Republic of South Africa
- Republic Of South Africa
- Rugby Union football
- Rugby Union
- Social discrimination & inequality
- Social Science - Discrimination & Race Relations
- Sports & Recreation - History
- Sports & Recreation - Rugby
- Australia -- Foreign relations -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Australia -- Foreign relations -- South Africa
- South Africa -- Foreign relations -- Australia
- Australian
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- Scribe
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