Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch
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Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch (born 1945) is an author, poet, lecturer, journalist, editor, and lawyer. He was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal in 2003 for writing, law, poetry and political commentary, the only award for this combination of activities. He has also received an award from the Vietnamese community in Perth for work for Vietnamese refugees and was chairman of the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship in Western Australia 2003-2006.
He received a BA Honours and MA in History/Politics and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Western Australia as well as degrees in jurisprudence and law.
He is the son of the late Australian politician Sir Hal Colebatch and Lady Marion Colebatch, a former Australian Army nursing sister. He is the author of Sir Hal Colebatch's biography, Steadfast Knight. His other work includes six volumes of poetry, a series of science-fiction novels published in the US in the series "The Man-Kzin Wars", created by Larry Niven, and books of political, social, legal and economic commentary. He writes regularly for a number of publications including Quadrant and his 1999 book "Blair's Britain" was chosen in the London Spectator as a Book of the Year.
His most recent book is "Caverns of Magic" (Cybereditions, 2006), a survey of caves in myth, legend and story, and of the development of speleology.
He is not to be confused with Dr Hal K. Colebatch who was born in 1944, has taught political science at several universities, and is also the author of a number of books.
[edit] Titles written by Colebatch Include:
- Claude de Bernales : the magnificent miner : a biography Carlisle, W.A. : Hesperian Press, 1996. ISBN 0859052001
- Steadfast knight : a life of Sir Hal Colebatch with a foreword by Geoffrey Blainey. Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004. ISBN 1920731393 - biography of his father.
