...opposition, state minister of the Crown, editor of the Bulletin and Quadrant magazines and author of at least six other books, but this extended essay still stands out among the many achievements of Peter Coleman's crowded life.

Like another author MP, Sir Paul Hasluck, Coleman was an under-estimated politician, perhaps because he sought to be judged on his merits rather than his self assessment. (It's worth mentioning that on the last occasion Coleman contested party pre-selection someone who is now spoken of as potential future prime minister came second!) Coleman entered politics without ego and left without rancour. He is one of the very few former party leaders never to have made a hero of himself by taking potshots at his successors. In every sense, he has been an adornment to our public life.

Today's launch is an act of fealty to some of the great ideas and individuals that have shaped our society and formed our lives. It is the acknowledgment of a cultural indebtedness for which we should be grateful rather than resentful. This is the kind of debt that makes us rich, not the kind of debt that makes us poor.

Whether as a conservative Catholic raging against the world, an indulgent radical tearaway, a poet of soaring emotional power, or a sympathetic student of development in the Third World, McAuley is a modern...

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