Clare Wright has spent ten years researching the history of these groundbreaking petitions. Though few Australians have heard of them, she writes, we can learn much from the story of their creation.

One of the most popular songs in Australian history has been enlisted as a potent musical instrument in the national contest for constitutional change.

Professor Clare Wright OAM appointed to new public engagement role

Ministers Katy Gallagher and Tony Burke have declared Trove's funding uncertainty has been ended "once and for all".

Scientists reflect on the ‘very strange thing’ of becoming a household name

Women working together are showing a new kind of politics.

I’m going to call it: 2022 is shaping up to be one of the most interesting federal elections since 1903. We know what’s going on in our national life as this dreadful pandemic year draws to a close…

Christos Tsiolkas, Clare Wright, Janet Holmes a Court and Adrian Collette are among the seven experts who will help steer the new National Cultural Policy.

Despite government money and hype about the power of gas to fire up the economy, the only thing that’s on the rise is exports

‘Historic injustices’ suffered by Indigenous people warrant a voice to parliament, open letter signed by more than 350 says

More than 150 leading Australian writers, researchers and thinkers have signed an open ­letter to Scott Morrison ­protesting at the government’s inaction in a decade of underfunding at the National...

The democratic freedoms Australians hold dear today – freedom of the press, assembly and speech – were won on home soil by courageous women and men who sacrificed much, but rarely recognised for it.

Constitutional recognition through a voice is also recognition of Aboriginal women’s voices and our girls’ voices in Australian democracy.

The National Archives will be able to save disintegrating documents, film and other at-risk materials with an imminent funding package from the federal government.

Monique Ryan, a neurologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital and political “cleanskin”, says she wants Josh Frydenberg’s federal seat of Kooyong.

There's been a huge change in demographic and the way stories are being told.

Australia's first female political candidate is set to be honoured with the co-naming of a suburb, but controversy has swirled over the lack of women's representation at a ceremony designed to...

There are now more statues of kelpies than Indigenous Australians or Australian women in Canberra’s parliamentary triangle.

Three hundred and fifty two historians from all over Australia have added their signatures to an open letter which celebrates the potentially history-changing moment bought by a yes vote at the...

As we emerge from coronavirus lockdown with more questions to ask, we can’t let the news vacuum in Australia be filled by shrill voices

Proudly declaring that no gender analysis was done on the federal budget reveals a disturbing ignorance of the inherent bias in our economic system

Clare Wright's short but heartbreaking piece about what it's like to visit a friend in the Darwin Correctional Centre.

If American women received a minimum wage for the unpaid care work they do around the house, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.

You’re the Voice reinforces the view that supporting the Voice to Parliament is an act of national reconciliation we can take together.

John Farnham has fiercely protected his hit song You're The Voice from commercial use  until now.