Brian Charles Fitzpatrick (1905-1965), journalist, historian, socialist and defender of civil liberties, was born on 17 November 1905 at Warrnambool, Victoria.

Fitzpatrick contributed significantly in three areas, as defender of civil liberties, historian and political maverick. He was a man of many contradictions. As his biographer Don Watson remarked, he was 'a cold-hearted Marxist and a soft-hearted liberal . . . a utopian and a pragmatist', fundamentally a rebel against authority. His energy, power of concentration, determination and speed of writing were phenomenal. (Australian Dictionary of Biography).
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