![]() ![]() ![]() The award of the 2014 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History jointly to Hal Colebatch for his book Australia's Secret War, which purports to show "How Unions Sabotaged Our Troops in World War II", has aroused both praise and condemnation.Ĭonservative columnists such as Miranda Devine and Andrew Bolt have applauded the book for supposedly telling us things about Australia's Second World War history that (they think) had been suppressed, while liberal commentators such as Rowan Cahill and history buffs on specialist websites have either roundly criticised Colebatch's book or questioned the veracity of his accounts. How did it win the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History? Peter Stanley writes. Hal Colebatch's book claiming that Australian unions sabotaged their nation's war effort is deeply unsatisfactory. ![]()
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