Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions – Professor Clare Wright

Overview

Join Professor Clare Wright in conversation with Associate Professor Julie McIntyre as they discuss Wright's book 'Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions'.

'Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions' is the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the trailblazers who made it. Clare Wright’s Democracy Trilogy began with 'The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka' and continued with 'You Daughters of Freedom'. It concludes with this compulsively readable account of a momentous episode in our shared story.

Professor Clare Wright OAM is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster 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. In 2020, Clare was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for ‘services to literature and to historical research’. She is the author of four works of history, including the best-selling The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka and You Daughters of Freedom, the first two instalments of her Democracy Trilogy. She is popular public speaker, panellist and interviewer and makes frequent appearances at literary festivals and on radio and television.

Presented by History Illuminated.

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