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Workshop on Women and Australian business history

Workshop on Women and Australian business history

by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Jun 14, 2022 | Uncategorized

It’s conference time! I am excited to announce that the next Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference will be held at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) on the 10-11 February 2023. We welcome proposals for contributions on any topic in...
Searching for Australia’s first corporate woman

Searching for Australia’s first corporate woman

by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Apr 8, 2022 | Data, Ideas

I remember sitting in a work in progress workshop with UOW’s CASS network last year, discussing the pilot of my (then proposed, now awarded) DECRA project, the first history of Australian women in corporate leadership. One of the participants, I believe it was Claire...
Radio interview and talkback: Melbourne’s wild and woolly past

Radio interview and talkback: Melbourne’s wild and woolly past

by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Jul 15, 2020 | media and events

Recorded live for ABC Melbourne Afternoons. We think of wool as a rural business, but Melbourne’s Collins Street was once the epicentre of Australia’s wool industry. While wool is grown in regional areas most of the industry’s infrastructure takes place in cities...
Analysis: Painting Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce as a superhero is part of a long Australian tradition

Analysis: Painting Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce as a superhero is part of a long Australian tradition

by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Oct 9, 2019 | media and events

Published for ABC News and The Conversation. Alan Joyce is Australia’s highest paid chief executive. Alan Joyce is one of the Financial Review’s ten most covertly powerful people. Alan Joyce writes heartwarming notes to children. Alan Joyce is getting...
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