Professor Clare Wright OAM is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster and public commentator who has worked in politics, academia and the media. Clare is currently Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement at La Trobe University. In 2020, Clare was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for ‘services to literature and to historical research’. She is the author of four works of history, including the best-selling The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka and You Daughters of Freedom, the first two instalments of her Democracy Trilogy. She is popular public speaker, panellist and interviewer and makes frequent appearances at literary festivals and on radio and television.
INTERVIEWS and ARTICLES
Conversation: Friday essay: 60 years old, the Yirrkala Bark Petitions are one of our founding documents – so why don’t we know more about them?
Conversation: Friday essay: masters of the future or heirs of the past? Mining, history and Indigenous ownership
Guardian: Lest we forget: a pandemic isn't a war but our healthcare workers are heroes
Find out more about Clare Wright
Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions
You Daughters of Freedom
We Are the Rebels
Beyond the Ladies Lounge
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
