HAL COLEBATCH CLEAR

• published: 21 Sep 2013
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Hal GP Colebatch, West Australian author/historian/poet, discusses his new book "Australia's Secret War" covering Australian strikes hampering the war effort in WW11. Waterside workers strikes, go-slows, sabotage and thefts involving supplies of troops and materiel to our fighting troops in the islands campaigns, are covered in detail. Colebatch's researchers expose an appalling situation covered up for 60 years by the orthodox history profession. Hal G.P. Colebatch has a PhD in Political Science and BA Honours and MA degrees in History/Politics from the UniČversity of Western Australia. He is also a lawyer with BJuris and LLB degrees, and has lectured part-time in International Law at Edith Cowan and Notre Dame universities in Western Australia. He acted as solicitor for a major trade union for several years. He has had a number of books published in areas ranging from biography to political economy, and including seven volumes of poetry and fifteen works of fiction. His study of contemporary British politics and society, Blair's Britain, was selected in the English Spectator as among the books of the year for 1999. He has had a series of novels published by Baen Books in the US, and many hundreds of articles in national and international publications, including the Australian, American Spectator Online, Quadrant, Australian Financial Review and Times Literary Supplement.