Latest News About Wright, Clare story examines the Australian historian and writer

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Clare Wright attended historians’ forums, as an author and historian, noted for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (2013), offering women’s perspectives on the Eureka Rebellion. Her work includes ABC history programs, including Utopia Girls and The War That Changed Us. She earned a PhD from the University of Melbourne, leading public history initiatives at La Trobe serving on the NMA Council since 2022. 2020 saw Wright awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia. for contributions 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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