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• Judith Arundell Wright McKinney

31 May, 1915
Thalgarrah, New South Wales, Australia

25 June, 2000 (aged 85)
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

myocardial infarction

• Anglican

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

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• Wright, Peter Arundell (brother)
• Stewart, Douglas Alexander (acquaintance)
• McFadyen, Ella May (mentor)
• Sutherland, Margaret Ada (related entry)

• Blackfriars Correspondence School (Sydney) (student, 1921-1928)
• New England Girls' School (Armidale, NSW) (student, 1929-1932)
• University of Sydney (student, 1934-1936)
• Women's College (University of Sydney) (resident, 1935-1936)

• poet (1934-1946) New South Wales, Australia
• poet (1946-1975) Queensland, Australia
• statistician (1946-1948) Queensland, Australia
• conservationist (1950-1975) Queensland, Australia
• essayist (1950-1975) Queensland, Australia
• literary critic (1950-1975) Queensland, Australia
• public intellectual (1950-1999) Australia
• human rights activist (1955-1975) Queensland, Australia
• Indigenous rights activist/supporter (1955-1975) Queensland, Australia
• novelist (1955-1975) Queensland, Australia
• children's author (1958-1966) Queensland, Australia
• biographer (1962-1965) Queensland, Australia
• conservationist (1975-1999) New South Wales, Australia
• essayist (1975-1999) New South Wales, Australia
• human rights activist (1975-1999) New South Wales, Australia
• Indigenous rights activist/supporter (1975-1999) New South Wales, Australia
• literary critic (1975-1999) New South Wales, Australia
• novelist (1975-1999) New South Wales, Australia
• poet (1975-1999) New South Wales, Australia
• autobiographer/memoirist (1980-1999) New South Wales, Australia

• Commonwealth Literary Fund (fellow, 1949-1949)
• Grace Leven prize (recipient, 1949-1949)
• Encyclopedia Britannica Prize for literature (recipient, 1965)
• Robert Frost medallion (recipient, 1975-1975)
• Senior Anzac fellowship (recipient, 1976)
• Australia Council (Literature Board) (fellow, 1977-1979)
• Alice award (recipient, 1980)
• Ridder (Knight) in the Dutch Order of the Golden Ark (recipient, 1980)
• Asan World prize (recipient, 1984)
• Queen’s Gold medal for poetry (recipient, 1991)
• Human Rights Award (Australian Human Rights Commission) (recipient, 1994)
• A. A. Phillips Award (Association for the Study of Australian Literature) (recipient, 1995)

• Wright (federal electorate) (eponym)
• Wright (suburb, ACT) (eponym)
• Judith Wright Arts Centre (eponym, 2001)
• Judith Wright Calanthe award (eponym, 2004)
• Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets (eponym, 2007)

• Meanjin (contributor)
• Southerly (journal) (contributor)
• Sydney Mail newspaper (contributor)
• Hermes magazine (University of Sydney) (contributor, 1934-1936)
• Honi Soit (University of Sydney) (social editor, 1934-1936)
• Bulletin (magazine) (contributor, 1943)
• Jacaranda Press (reader, 1960-1970)
• Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland (foundation president, 1962-1976)
• Australian Society of Authors (national) (council member, 1963-1963)
• Australian Conservation Foundation (council member, 1966-1972)
• Australian Council for the Arts (council member, 1973-1974)
• Committee of Inquiry into the National Estate (member, 1973-1974)
• Australian National University (council member, 1975-1979)
• Aboriginal Treaty Committee (member, 1979-1983)
• Australian Conservation Foundation (life member, 1980-2000)

• Wallamumbi (resident, 1915-1929)
• Wallamumbi (co-manager, 1942-1943)

• J. Walter Thompson (employee, 1938-1941)
• University of Sydney (employee, 1938-1941)
• Sydney City Council (employee, 1941-1942)
• Australian Universities Commission (employee, 1943-1945)
• University of Queensland (employee, 1946-1948)