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Clare Wright attended lectures, as a prominent historian, famed for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (2013), which portrays the Eureka Rebellion from women's perspectives. She has produced ABC history programs, including Utopia Girls and The War That Changed Us. With a PhD from Melbourne, she is a professor at La Trobe University, heading public history projects at La Trobe serving on the NMA Council since 2022. In 2020 she received the Medal of the Order of Australia. for her services to literature and historical research.

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Professor Clare Wright To Lead NMA Council | Mirage News

Award-winning historian and La Trobe University Professor Clare Wright OAM has been appointed Chair of the Council of the National Museum of Australia

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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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Professor Clare Wright to lead NMA Council

Professor Clare Wright to lead National Museum of Australia Council