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By Gideon Haigh

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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.

ISBN: 9780522855784
Classification: Ethical issues: abortion & birth control , History: specific events & topics
Format: Paperback (234mm x 153mm x 19mm)
Pages: 288
Publish Date: 1-Sep-2008
Country of Publication: Australia

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Author Biography: Gideon Haigh
Gideon Haigh is the author of Game For Anything: Writings on cricket, The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket, Mystery Spinner: The story of Jack Iverson, and The Border Years, and has edited Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack Australia. He covered the 2005 Ashes series for The Guardian newspaper in the UK. His other books include the award-winning Asbestos House, and Bad Company.

Recent books by Gideon Haigh » View all books by Gideon Haigh

Spheres of Influence, Paperback (November 2010)

Vincibles, Paperback (December 2009)

Ashes 2009, Paperback (November 2009)

Ashes 2009, Hardback (September 2009)

Inside Out, Paperback (April 2009)

Inside Out, Paperback (November 2008)

Racket, Paperback (September 2008)

A-Z of Bradman, Paperback (August 2008)

Fear, Prejudice, Tolerance, Paperback (May 2008)

Green and Golden Age, Paperback (April 2008)

Cricket War, Paperback (December 2007)

Inside Story, Hardback (October 2007)

Asbestos House, Paperback (October 2007)

Parachutist at Fine Leg, Hardback (August 2007)

Silent Revolutions, Paperback (March 2007)

Downed Under, Hardback (February 2007)

Ashes 2006-2007, Paperback (February 2007)

Book of Ashes Anecdotes, Paperback (November 2006)

Penguin Book of Ashes Anecdotes 1882-2005, Paperback (October 2006)

Peter the Lord's Cat, Hardback (August 2006)

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Recent books by Gideon Haigh