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2026

‘Another legacy of April 25; when South Australian women won the vote’, ABC Radio Adelaide, 26 April 2026.

‘The Yolngu war hero who went on to change the nation’, NITV, 23 April 2026.

‘World War II nurses commemorated in regional Victoria’, Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal, 22 April 2026.

Vote for Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions in the University of Sydney’s People’s Choice Award, open until 6 May 2026.

‘NSW Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced’, Books+Publishing, 21 April 2026.

‘See What You Made Me Do: Foreword’, The Point, 2 April 2026.

‘NT MP warns of major fallout if Woolworths leaves Gove Peninsula’, National Indigenous Times, 17 March 2026.

‘Morning Star | Witiyana Marika’, Australian Story, 16 March 2026.

‘Arnhem Land called Yothu Yindi co-founder Witiyana Marika home as band was going global’, ABC News, 15 March 2026.

‘Yesterday’s Deviants, Tomorrow’s Folk Heroes’, Lantana, 2 March 2026.

‘History, Democracy, & Resisting Fascism with Yanis Varoufakis, Prof Clare Wright & Dr Emma Shortis’, The Australia Institute, 1 March 2026.

‘Writers call for boycott of Adelaide Writers’ Week after Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah is dropped’, Images, 10 January 2026.

‘Adelaide Festival drops Randa Abdel-Fattah after Bondi attacks’, Independent Australia, 9 January 2026.

‘Authors and Sponsors Pull Out of Adelaide Writers’ Week After Randa Abdel-Fattah Dropped From Lineup’, Rolling Stone, 9 January 2026.

2025

‘Clare Wright’s history of the Bark Petitions is a work of intimate storytelling, written with “charismatic authority”’, The Conversation, 10 October 2024.

‘The untold history of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions’, The Mandarin, 10 October 2024.

‘Recovering the lost and forgotten pages of Australian history: Prof Clare Wright’, ABC Radio Sydney, 9 October 2024.

‘Ten new books we’re excited to read in October’, The Age, 1 October 2024.

‘Näku Dhäruk: How the Yolŋu submitted the first formal assertion of lands rights to an Australian Parliament’, National Indigenous Times, 1 October 2024.

‘Museum chair uses her voice in pursuit of truth-telling in Australian history’, The Australian, 27 September 2024.

‘Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the people of Yirrkala changed the course of Australian Democracy’, ABC Speaking Out, 20 September 2024.

‘Plenty of facts, truth, and good stories: New non-fiction releases for your to-read list’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 September 2024.

‘New NMA Council Chair pledges to repatriate First Nations remains’, PS News, 19 August 2024.

‘Appointments To National Museum Of Australia Council’, The National Tribune, 8 August 2024.

‘Professor Clare Wright to lead NMA Council’, La Trobe University, 8 August 2024.

‘Victoria needs 6000 new place names. It wants most to be the names of women’, The Age, 23 July 2024.

‘A Brief History of Women’s Suffrage in Australia’, ABC Overnights, 2 June 2024.

‘The long connection between pubs and politics in Australia’, ABC News, 22 February 2024.

‘Jaipur Literature Festival 2024: “In India and the world, the citizen has become the state’s enemy”, says writer Urvashi Butalia’, The Indian Express, 6 February 2024.

‘The professor, the petition, and a passion for history’, The Australian, 23 January 2024.

‘Push for statue of “Flower Hunter”, a century after her art was derided by men’, The Age, 21 January 2024.

2023

‘Statue for Victorian pacifist and politician Vida Goldstein’, ABC Radio: Melbourne Mornings, 11 December 2023.

‘Yolŋu bark petition repatriated to east Arnhem Land in remote NT after going “missing” for decades’, ABC News, 10 December 2023.

‘Putting women on a pedestal: Melbourne to erect Vida Goldstein statue’, The Age, 8 December 2023.

‘Yirrkala Bark Petition returning to country’, Mirage News, 5 December 2023.

‘Yirrkala Bark Petition repatriation’, ABC Sunday Extra, 3 December 2023.

‘The Yirrkala Bark Petitions and the long, winding path to The Voice’, ABC Late Night Live, 26 September 2023.

‘Upcoming Jaipur Literature Festival to celebrate how 'Stories Unite Us’, ONmanorama, 26 September 2023.

‘“Stories unite us”: Jaipur Literature Festival to take place from Feb 1 to 5’, National Herald, 26 September 2023.

‘Women are under-represented among public statues across Australia, but the tide is turning’, ABC News, 22 September 2023.

‘How diverse are Australia’s electorate names? Here’s how your seat compares’, SBS News, 11 September 2023.

‘Backflip amid controversy over “particularly ironic” all-male panel for female honour’, SBS News, 25 August 2023.

‘Infidelity and other affairs’, ABC RN: Big Ideas, 14 August 2023.

‘Friday essay: 60 years old, the Yirrkala Bark Petitions are one of our founding documents – so why don’t we know more about them?’, The Conversation, 11 August 2023.

‘Canberra Writers Festival writers reveal the influential books they've read (or should have)’, The Canberra Times, 5 August 2023.

‘Melbourne to commission three new statues to address gender imbalance’, ABC News, 7 December 2022.

‘The need for more statues of Australian women’, ABC RN Drive, 7 December 2023.

‘Melbourne to raise at least three new statues of women to counter gender imbalance in public art’, The Guardian, 7 December 2022.

‘The push to immortalise Victoria's greatest women on Melbourne’s streets’, 7 NEWS, 5 December 2022.

‘Kirner Street and three new statues poised to even up Melbourne’s marble mismatch’, The Age, 2 December 2022.

‘Historic Bark Petition artefact returned to traditional owners after 59-year travels around Australia’, ABC News, 24 November 2022.

‘120 years since Australia gave most women the right to vote’, 2GB Overnights, 13 June 2022.

‘Albanese faces first test on world stage’, ABC The World Today, 24 May 2022.

‘Breakfast’, ABC Melbourne Breakfast, 23 May 2022.

‘Sydney Writers’ Festival: Controversies, epiphanies and the case against Canva: highlights from Sydney writers’ festival’, The Guardian, 23 May 2022.

‘History tells us women can turn elections: the Liberals should have listened’, The Guardian, 22 May 2022.

‘Mornings’, ABC Sydney Mornings, 20 May 2022.

‘Cleary Independent - Season 1 / Episode 2 / Part 1 - Election Edition’, Clearly Independent, 19 May 2022.

‘New rules to keep racist, sexist place names off the map’, The Age, 14 May 2022.

‘Top Australian writers call for climate action to be at the centre of election’, The Guardian, 12 May 2022.

‘Rose de Freycinet stowed away on her husband's ship 200 years ago. Here’s why her journey still matters’, ABC News, 4 May 2022.

‘Clare Wright OAM’, Find Your Voice with Zoe Daniels, 4 May 2022.

‘Stella Prize 10 years on: Australian authors reflect on how the award changed their careers and the literary landscape’, ABC News, 16 March 2022.

‘Clare Wright’, 3CR Tuesday Breakfast, 15 March 2022.

‘Victoria to get six new public monuments celebrating women like Zelda D’Aprano’, Women’s Agenda, 13 March 2022.

‘Breakfast with papers: Clare Wright, Kara Jung and Linda Jaivin’, Breakfast with Papers, 8 March 2022.

‘It could be last drinks at famous John Curtin Hotel as owners put iconic pub up for sale’, ABC News, 16 Feb 2022.

2021

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‘Anniversary of the Eureka Stockade rebellion’, 2 GB Sydney: Overnight with Phil O’Neil, 3 December 2021.

‘Someday their plinth will come: Melbourne’s female statues lost in limbo’, The Age, 3 December 2021.

‘We need commemorative justice for our statues of women’, The Age, 3 December 2021.

‘La Trobe University’s Researchers and media interviews (an interview with Professor Clare Wright)’, November 2021.

‘Invisible women: Melbourne’s monumental problem - and how to fix it’, The Age, 20 November 2021.

‘Mornings’, ABC Canberra Mornings, 19 November 2021.

‘From Global Leaders to Fossil Fools’, Meanjin, 16 November 2021.

‘Who was Lola Montez?’, ABC Nightlife, 25 October 2021.

‘Wish you weren’t here: on being a tourist in the criminal justice system’, Griffith Review, August 2021.

‘Famous Aussies write to the women who raised them’, Financial Review, 8 May 2021.

‘Women in politics front and centre at Sydney Writer's Festival’, ABC NewsRadio, 3 May 2021.

‘Hilary Mantel, Mad Max and Donald Trump: what we learned from Sydney writers’ festival’, The Guardian, 2 May 2021.

‘Female Activists Have Changed History – And We Can Do It Again’, Tonic, 18 March 2021.

Clare Wright on Times Radio Drive with John Pienaar, 15 March 2021.

‘Historian Clare Wright talks activism and progress on International Womens Day’, The Drum, 8 March 2021.

‘Friday essay: masters of the future or heirs of the past? Mining, history and Indigenous ownership’, The Conversation, 28 January 2021.

‘Masters of the future or heirs of the past?: Mining, history and the right to know’, Griffith Review, January 2021.

 

2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.