Clare Wright
Clare Wright is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster, podcaster and public commentator. Her latest book is Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions, the third instalment of her Democracy Trilogy.
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Clare Wright
Clare Wright is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster, podcaster 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.
She is the author of five works of history, including her groundbreaking Democracy Trilogy, comprising The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (2013), You Daughters of Freedom (2018) and Ṉäku Dhäruk (2024). The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka won the 2014 Stella Prize.
Clare has written and presented history documentaries for ABC TV and hosts the ABC Radio National history series/podcast, Shooting the Past, co-hosts the La Trobe University podcast Archive Fever and is Executive Producer of Hey History!, the first Australian History podcast designed for use in schools. Clare regularly appears in the print and broadcast media as a social and historical commentator, including a monthly segment on ABC News Breakfast.
Clare is the co-founder and co-convenor of A Monument of One’s Own, a NFP advocacy group campaigning for statue equality and commemorative justice for women.
In 2020, Clare was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list for “services to literature and to historical research”.
In 2022, Clare was on the National Cultural Policy Expert Advisory Panel and was commissioned to co-write (with Christos Tsiolkas) the Vision Statement for the policy document, Revive. In August 2024, Clare was appointed Chair of the National Museum of Australia Council.
Her latest book is Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions, the third instalment of her Democracy Trilogy.
Festival Events
Things We Don’t Speak About: Great Australian Myths
DATE April 6 TIME 11:30 am WHERECivic Playhouse Book nowAfter the Voice Referendum: Thomas Mayo in Conversation
DATE April 5 TIME 1:00 pm WHEREConservatorium of Music Concert Hall Book nowThe Yirrkala Bark Petitions: Clare Wright in Conversation
DATE April 5 TIME 10:00 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X321 Book nowBY THE ARTIST
