Pitched Battle - Larry Writer

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.

TITLE: Pitched Battle

AUTHOR: Larry Writer

SKU: 9781925228748

PUBLISHER: Scribe Publications

DATE PUBLISHED: 08/12/2016

PLACE PUBLISHED: Australia

PAGES: 336

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 153 mm x 234 mm