Person

Wright, Judith (1915 - )

Born
1915
Occupation
Conservationist and Poet

Summary

Judith Wright wrote on many issues including nature conservation and the rights of indigenous people. She fought to save the Great Barrier Reef from mining and oil drilling and to establish the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Her 1977 book The Coral Battleground records her contribution to this cause. She was later nominated for a Nobel prize for literature.

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Papers of Judith Wright, 1959 - 1998, MS 5781; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Articles

Books

  • Brady, Veronica, South of my days: a biography of Judith Wright (Pymble, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson, 1998), 586 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Wright, Judith, 'Work of R.W. Lahey', Wildlife Australia, 1 (1) (1963), 9010. Details

Resources

See also

  • Griffiths, Tom, Hunters and Collectors: the Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Cambridge/Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 430 pp. Details

Ailie Smith

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