Coleman v Power was a High Court of Australia case that dealt with the implied freedom of political communication found in the Australian Constitution.

Gummow, Hayne JJ and Kirby J held the impugned section of the VA to be valid, concluded that it would infringe the second limb of the Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation test,[3] to the extent that it applied to political communication and read it down so that it did not.

Further, Kirby J noted that insulting words were a well-known tradition in Australian politics from "its earliest history".

[4] McHugh J also held that the impugned section infringed the second limb of the Lange v ABC test to the extent that it applied to political communication.

The case is significant as an iterative step in the High Court's development of Australia's freedom of political communication doctrine.