Heroes : The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Social Conflict, Cybereditions Corporation, 2003. Good work and friendship : the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship in Western Australia 1909-2009,Victoria League, 2010. The Modest Member, the official biography of Bert Kelly MHR, Connor Court Publishing, 2012 Australia’s Secret War: How Unionists Sabotaged Our Troops in World War II, Quadrant Books, 2013. Fragile Flame : The Uniqueness and Vulnerability of Scientific and Technological Civilization, Acashic, 2013 Caverns of Magic (Cybereditions, 2006), a survey of caves in myth, legend and story, and of the development of speleology, with a foreword by naturalist and conservationist Harry Butler Blair's Britain: British Culture Wars and New Labour was chosen as a Book of the Year by the London Spectator. Book reviews References Further reading Tony Thomas, "Hal Colebatch", Quadrant, October 2013, pp. 59–63. External links 1945 births Australian anti-communists Australian biographers Male biographers 20th-century Australian lawyers Australian science fiction writers Australian people of English descent People educated at Christ Church Grammar School Writers from Perth, Western Australia Journalists from Western Australia Quadrant (magazine) people Australian male novelists 2019 deaths Australian monarchists Historians from Western Australia