#clare wright

[saresnugs]

"Now that I am well again, I know, of course, that confronting the full force of my own vulnerability was not an epic fail. In fact, it was the complete opposite. Only I could make the decision to step back from the brink of the abyss. Only I could start to love myself the way my friends and family loved me. I had to find out for myself that life is not a performance sport; that achievement is a state of grace, not the sum total of relentless activity; that ego might not be a dirty word, but it can be a ruthless taskmaster; and that hard work often brings just rewards, but it's not what sets you free." - Clare Wright

[bettygemma]

"Now that I am well again, I know, of course, that confronting the full force of my own vulnerability was not an epic fail. In fact, it was the complete opposite. Only I could make the decision to step back from the brink of the abyss. Only I could start to love myself the way my friends and family loved me. I had to find out for myself that life is not a performance sport; that achievement is a state of grace, not the sum total of relentless activity; that ego might not be a dirty word, but it can be a ruthless taskmaster; and that hard work often brings just rewards, but it's not what sets you free."

Clare Wright

[knowmorenews]

I think people are feeling like it's been turned into a kind of circus sideshow that we're all being sold tickets to.

Professor Clare Wright, on ‘Anzac fatigue’

[thrymsusano]

Grass widows: the girls the diggers left behind and what they had to do (detail).

— William Strutt, 1851 (in Clare Wright’s “The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka”)

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The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright

The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright

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In December 1854 Australia saw one of its most significant uprisings in its history known as the Eureka Rebellion. This act of civilian disobedience in Ballarat, Victoria was a protest to the expensive miner’s licence been imposed on them. The miner’s licence fee was a way around the taxation problem in the mine fields, allowing the Victorian…

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