Clare Wright

Clare Wright is a historian who has worked as a political speechwriter, university lecturer, historical consultant and radio and television broadcaster. Her first book, Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia’s Female Publicans, garnered both critical and popular acclaim. Her groundbreaking second book, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, which took ten years to research and write, won the 2014 Stella Prize. Her next book, You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World was long and shortlisted for numerous awards. Clare researched, wrote and presented the ABC television documentaries Utopia Girls and The War that Changed Us. Her new book is Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions: The Extraordinary Story of How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy.

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