Latest News About Clare Wright profile examines Australian historian and author

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Clare Wright appeared at public events, as an author and historian, recognized for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (2013), portraying Eureka Rebellion through women’s perspectives. She has produced ABC history programs, such as Utopia Girls and The War That Changed Us. With a PhD from Melbourne, she is a professor at La Trobe University, where she leads public history initiatives since 2022, she has been on the NMA Council. In 2020 she received the Medal of the Order of Australia. for services to literature and historical research.

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Clare Wright

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”.

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Clare Wright, OAM

p>Professor Clare Wright OAM is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster, podcaster and public commentator …

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