The Eureka Stockade.
It’s one of Australia’s foundation legends—yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren’t there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? What if there were women and children right there beside them, inside the Stockade, when the bullets started to fly? And how do the answers to these questions change what we thought we knew about the so-called ‘birth of Australian democracy’?
Who, in fact, were the midwives to that precious delivery?
Ten years in the research and writing, irrepressibly bold, entertaining and often irreverent in style, Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of Ballarat—women who made Eureka a story for us all.
Online articles—Clare on the fate of women in Australian history:
Guardian
Conversation
Stella Prize media
Lateline interview
The Stella Prize interview
Digital Writers Festival, with Sophie Cunningham
Podcasts
Radio National Late Night Live
Radio National Drive
ABC 774 Melbourne
ABC 612 Brisbane
La Trobe University
ABC Classic FM
Unladylike
SBS Radio
Other media
Independent UK
Irish Echo
Australian Women Writers Challenge
Australian Jewish News
Sheilas
Dumbo Feather
Melbourne Writers Festival