Clare Wright

Professor Clare Wright OAM is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster and public commentator who has worked in politics, academia and the media.

She is currently a Professorial Research Fellow and ARC Future Fellow at La Trobe University. She is the author of four works of history, including the bestselling The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (winner of the 2014 Stella Prize) and You Daughters of Freedom.

Her work has been published in The Guardian, Meanjin, Overland, The Conversation, The Age and The Australian. Clare has appeared as a historical and social commentator on QandA, The Drum, The Project and Behind the News and she has featured in the US, UK and Australian versions of Who Do You Think You Are?

Clare is currently writing a history of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, the third instalment of her Democracy Trilogy.

She hosts the ABC Radio National history series, Shooting the Past, and co-hosts the La Trobe Uni podcast Archive Fever.

In 2020, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and to historical research.

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Masters of the future or heirs of the past?

EssayIN MAY 2020, the international mining giant Rio Tinto made a calculated and informed decision to drill 382 blast holes in an area of its Brockman 4 mining lease that encompassed the ancient rock shelter formations at Juukan Gorge...

Birth of a nation?

EssayIN FEBRUARY 1902 – just thirteen months after the Australian colonies federated to become the world’s newest nation – a tall, slender woman from Portland, Victoria, was standing outside the door to the Oval Office in Washington DC. She...

Forgetting to remember

EssayLearning to remember means…transforming individual memories and struggles into collective narratives and larger social movements. Henry A Giroux, The Violence of Organized Forgetting, (City Light Books, 2014) WHEN I WAS a little girl, I began poking and prodding the world with...

Wish you weren’t here

GR OnlineYou will put all your belongings in a locker. Everything. You can’t give your friend the photos you’ve brought. Photos of him in better days: on country days, dancing ceremony, playing footy, his kids. You put the photos and your jewellery, along with your phone and backpack, into the locker. You remember to take out your cardigan. You’ll need it to cover your suggestive shoulders.

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