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
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
- Bowen, Margarita, 'Judith Wright - a tribute', WISENET Journal, 34 (March) (1994), http://www.wisenet-australia.org/profiles/JudithWright.htm. Details
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
- 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
See also
- Griffiths, Tom, Hunters and Collectors: the Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Cambridge/Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 430 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 1 April 2003, Last modified: 25 May 2006