The Blackburns: Private lives, public ambitions

by Carolyn Rasmussen

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When socialist barrister and aspiring member of parliament Maurice Blackburn met Doris Hordern, ardent feminist and campaign secretary to Vida Goldstein, neither had marriage in their imagined futures. But they fell in love - with each other as much as with their individual aspirations to change the world for the better. Theirs would be an exacting partnership as they held one another to the highest ideals. They worked as elected members of parliaments and community activists, influencing conscription laws, benefits for working men and women, atomic bomb tests, civil rights and Indigenous recognition. Together, they shook Australia.
  • ISBN10 0522874452
  • ISBN13 9780522874457
  • Publish Date 5 March 2019
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 March 2021
  • Publish Country AU
  • Imprint Melbourne University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 277
  • Language English