Defending Country is pleased to welcome as Supporters Anna Clark and Melissa Lucashenko.
Anna Clark is a historian at the Australian Centre for Public History and Professor, School of Communication, University of Technology, Sydney. Her book, Making Australian History, was published by Penguin in 2022 and was longlisted for a Walkley Award and an NIB Literary Award. She has written or co-edited several works of history: The History Wars (with Stuart Macintyre, 2003); Teaching the Nation (2006); History's Children: History Wars in the Classroom (2008); two history books for children, Convicted! (2005) and Explored! (2008); Private Lives; Public History (2016); The Catch: Australia's Love Affair with Fishing (2023).
Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Since 1997, she has been widely published as an award-winning novelist, essayist and short story writer. Her work has appeared in The Moth: Fifty True Stories, Meanjin, Griffith Review, and The Monthly. Her novels include Steam Pigs (1997), Mulllumbimby (2013), and Too Much Lip (2019, winner of the Miles Franklin Award). Her most recent novel, Edenglassie (2023), has been long-listed for the 2024 Stella Prize. She is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of the human rights organisation, Sisters Inside.
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