Clare Wright

Professor Clare Wright OAM is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster, podcaster and public commentator who has worked in politics, academia and the media. Clare is currently Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement at La Trobe University. 

She is the author of five works of history, including her groundbreaking Democracy Trilogy, comprising The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (2013), You Daughters of Freedom (2018) and Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions (2024). The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka won the 2014 Stella Prize. 

Clare has written and presented history documentaries for ABC TV and hosts the ABC Radio National history series/podcast, Shooting the Past; co-hosts the La Trobe University podcast Archive Fever; is Executive Producer of Hey History!, the first Australian History podcast designed for use in schools; and is Chair of the National Museum of Australia Council.

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”.