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Sir Hal Colebatch and the missing secret army.(Rob Darroch's review of "Steadfast Knight: A Life of Sir Hal Colebatch")
MY BIOGRAPHY of my father, Steadfast Knight." A Life of Sir Hal Colebatch (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004), received favourable reviews in a spread of journals, including the Australian, Quadrant, the West Australian and even the Australian Book Review. The exception was a review by one Rob Darroch in the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. I am not in the habit of commenting on reviews of my books. However Mr Darroch's effort was so generally bizarre and false as to merit some attention.
Googling reveals Mr Darroch to be vice-president of the D.H. Lawrence Society of Australia. This, I gather, is the reason for the obsession with "secret ...
- Steadfast knight; a life of Sir Hal Colebatch.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2005 700+ words
1920731393 Steadfast knight; a life of Sir Hal Colebatch. Colebatch, Hal G.P. Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2004 319 pages $29.95 Paperback DU80 Sir Hal Colebatch rose from extreme poverty to become a journalist...
- Hal G. P. Colebatch, Steadfast Knight: A Life of Sir Hal Colebatch.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Darroch, Rob June 1, 2005 700+ words
...Hal G. P. Colebatch, Steadfast Knight : A Life of Sir Hal Colebatch, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004, 319 pages; ISBN 1 92073 139 3 Steadfast Knight: A Life of Sir Hal Colebatch is a son's account of the life of his father, a...
- Steadfast Knight: A Life of Sir Hal Colebatch.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs Dunkley, K.H. March 22, 2005 700+ words
STEADFAST KNIGHT: A LIFE OF SIR HAL COLEBATCH by Hal G.P. Colebatch Fremantle: Fremantle Arts...Premier, Senator, Agent-General and chess wizard Sir Hal Colebatch (1872-1953) is, in many ways too improbable for...
- SIR HAL MILLER, CHAIRMAN & CEO, COSMOPOLITAN TEXTILES, ONE OF VERY FEW 'HEROES'...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 26, 1996 700+ words
...by Cosmopolitan Textile Company Ltd.: Sir Hal Miller has once again come to public notice...his constituency before Party politics, Sir Hal stood firm on his statements that he had...the very few "heroes" in this affair. Sir Hal Miller is Chairman and CEO of Cosmopolitan...
- A grand old man of the west.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Morgan, Patrick May 1, 2005 700+ words
Steadfast Knight: A Life of Sir Hal Colebatch, by Hal G.P. Colebatch; Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004, $32.95. SIR HAL COLEBATCH, Premier of Western Australia in 1918-19, was...
- Poul Anderson. (Letters).
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Bewley, Geoffrey October 1, 2001 700+ words
SIR: Hal Colebatch's piece on Poul Anderson (June 2001) is excellent as far as it goes, but it doesn't do Anderson full justice. Colebatch...
- LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant July 1, 2001 700+ words
...against Manning Clark, a posthumous campaign of the kind that Hal Colebatch deplores elsewhere in the May issue of Quadrant. I note also...Putnam, Kensington, NSW. SANTAMARIA'S MEANS AND ENDS SIR: Hal G.P. Colebatch is right in commenting (May 2001) in his...
- The Western tradition.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Coman, B.J. April 1, 2004 700+ words
SIR: Hal Colebatch's long letter (March 2004) against my essay on the adulation of modern America is in the oracular and dithyrambic style. For...
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