Springbok Tour of Australia, 1971

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Series 10

Content Summary:

In 1971 the South African Springbok rugby union team toured Australia, provoking anti-apartheid demonstrations and clashes throughout the country. Harris was arrested whilst reporting for The Times at a demonstration at Norwood Oval in Adelaide, but was subsequently acquitted on the two charges of resisting police and of resisting arrest. He later published Political Football, an analysis of the tour, including a description of an alleged assault against Brian Tovey, a demonstrator at a Springbok's match in Toowoomba's Gold Park.

An ABC interview with Harris, recorded after the court judgment on his arrest, is preserved in the Oral History Collection.

Immediate source of acquisition:

In December 1994 the National Library of Australia purchased the papers of Stewart Harris, for more than twenty years Foreign Correspondent in Australia for The Times newspaper.

Names:

Stewart Harris

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