Person

Wright, Judith (1915 - 2000)

Born: 31 May 1915
Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 25 June 2000
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation: Author, 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 regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

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

Edited Books

Chapman, Valerie C; Read, Peter ed., Terrible hard biscuits: A reader in Aboriginal history (St Leonards, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin, 1996), xv, 284 pp. Pages 2, 10. Details

Journal Articles

Bowen, Margarita, 'Judith Wright - a tribute', Wisenet : Journal of the Women in Science Enquiry Network (1994), 13-14, https://web.archive.org.au/awa/20120321072512mp_/http://www.wisenet-australia.org/PDF_Files/PDF-WiseNet%20early%20issues/WISENET%20No34_20090109142402.pdf. Details
Wright, Judith, 'Work of R.W. Lahey', Wildlife Australia, 1 (1) (1963), 9010. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q469885. Details
VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/68976367. Details
'Wright, Judith Arundell (-2000)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-545885. Details

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