Clare Wright

Professor Clare Wright is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster, podcaster and public commentator. Her latest book is the highly acclaimed Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions, a history of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions and the third instalment of her Democracy Trilogy. The first book in the trilogy, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, won the 2014 Stella Prize. Ṉäku Dhäruk won The Australian Political Book of the Year Award, among other literary prizes, and was shortlisted for a Walkley Award. In 2020, Clare was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for "services to literature and to historical research". She is Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement at La Trobe University. She is Chair of the National Museum of Australia Council and past board director of the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas.