William Peter Coleman (15 December 1928 – 31 March 2019) was that increasingly rare creature in contemporary Australia, a great public intellectual, a politician of the highest integrity and a gentleman.
Born in Melbourne, he grew up in Sydney where he imbibed the political battles of the interwar years at his father’s parties, listening to the arguments of freethinkers and Trotskyists.
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