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
