Professor Clare Wright is an award-winning historian, broadcaster, podcaster and public commentator, and of course, author.

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. 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.

Clare caught up with 2SER Breakfast before appearing at the 2025 Sydney Writers’ Festival as part of three amazing events:

• Past and Future of Indigenous Recognition – Reflecting on the past and building towards the future
• Clare Wright: Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions – Understanding how the land rights movement changed Australian democracy
• Archive Fever: All in the Family – Sometimes the best stories are those closest to home