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==Environmentalism and social activism== Wright campaigned in support of the conservation of the [[Great Barrier Reef]] and [[Fraser Island]]. With some of her friends, she helped found one of the earliest nature conservation movements.<ref name="McKinney2004" />{{rp|9}} She was also an advocate for [[Aboriginal land rights]].<ref name="Values">{{Citation | title=Comment on science, value and meaning (Chapter 16) Australian tropical rainforests : science - values -meaning / editors: L. J. Webb and J. Kikkawa | author1=Webb, Leonard J | author-link= Leonard Webb (academic) | author2=Kikkawa, Jiro, 1929β | author-link2=Jiro Kikkawa | author3=Judith Wright | author-link3=Judith Wright | author4=CSIRO | author-link4=CSIRO | author5=ANZAAS 1987 : James Cook University of North Queensland) | publisher=CSIRO | language=English }}</ref> [[Thomas Shapcott|Tom Shapcott]], reviewing ''With Love and Fury'', her posthumous collection of selected letters published in 2007, comments that her letter on this topic to the Australian prime minister [[John Howard]] was "almost brutal in its scorn".<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/news/book-reviews/with-love-and-fury-selected-letters-of-judith-wright/2007/03/09/1173166968695.html Tom Shapcott, Book Review, "With Love and Fury: selected letters of Judith Wright"], ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 10 March 2007.</ref> Shortly before her death, she attended a march in [[Canberra]] for reconciliation between non-indigenous Australians and the Aboriginal people.<ref name="litweb.net"/>
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