Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%

Maggie MacKellar

Maggie MacKellar lives on a sheep property on the east coast of Tasmania. She is the author of two books on the history of settlement in Australia and Canada and two memoirs, When It Rains (2010) and How To Get There (2014).

Maggie MacKellar reviews 'You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world' by Clare Wright

November 2018, no. 406 25 October 2018
When Clare Wright’s new history, You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world, landed in my mailbox, I opened it with some trepidation. It was big, a fact I now realise I should have expected but nevertheless a somewhat disheartening one – arriving as it did at the beginning of our lambing season on the farm. It sat on the kitchen table, slightly out of pla ... (read more)