Whose History is it, Anyway? Global Records Access Information Exchange, 28 September 2021, Frank Golding OAM, PhD When I started thinking about what I could say in my allotted 10 minutes today, I thought I might discuss the first 5 of the 10 rights in the CLAN Charter of Rights in Records—which are grouped under […]
Linking with the Other Side of the World
This is an interim commentary. I want to add more to it when I have time. One of the things keeping me busy over the past several years is linking into and keeping up with Care Leavers organisations in other countries. There’s a great deal of interest in sharing experiences across the world. For a […]
Care Experienced People in Higher Education
The Alliance for Care Experienced People in Higher Education is a project currently being developed by care experienced people for care experienced people in Higher Education (HE). The term ‘care experienced’ people has become a common tag used in the Uk to describe what we in Australia usually call Care Leavers (and some people still […]
Alliance for Care Experienced People in Higher Education
A group of Care Leavers (in Australia) and Care Experienced People (in the UK) have initiated the Alliance for Care Experienced People in Higher Education – a project currently being developed by care experienced people for care experienced people in Higher Education. There are care experienced people researching, working, and studying in Higher Education who […]
Problems with Records Are Not Confined to the Past
Just published on line through Springer. Will be printed in Archival Science in due course. Below is a pre-publication version of the manuscript. Some minor changes will be found in the on line version which can be accessed at ‘Online First’: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-019-09304-0 DOI 10.1007/s10502-019-09304-0 “Problems with records and recordkeeping practices are not confined to the past”: A […]
Cardinal Pell Can Be Taken Away, Please
Frank Golding, 13 March, 2019 at the Melbourne County Court Flanked by five hefty policemen, the Cardinal sits impassively at the rear of County Court Room 3.3, while from the front, Chief Judge Kidd reads his sentencing report, without relent. Not accustomed to listening to others for such a stretch, Pell will have to wait […]
Recent Publications
One of the reasons I have not been able to keep up a flow of new posts is the increase for requests to contribute to journals. Here is one of the more recent publications.
Sexual Abuse as the Core Transgression of Childhood Innocence: Unintended Consequences for Care Leavers
I’ve just added a copy of my article published this week in the Journal of Australian Studies – a special edition devoted to the Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Try this link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14443058.2018.1445121?scroll=top&needAccess=true For those who want to see the contents of the Special Issue of the Journal of Australian Studies:
Redress for All Forms of Abuse.
Senator Derryn Hinch was a member of the Senate Committee examining the Bill before the Parliament on a national redress scheme. The Senator demonstrated that not all politicians come to meetings like this one with a closed mind. A few days after the hearing, he posted the following part of his diary on Crikey.com. These […]
Another Apology
Formal Apologies: What do they mean? Do they matter? The Prime Minister has set up a committee to provide advice on a proposed national apology to Australians who were sexually abused as children. (See more here.) There are many things we’ve learned from past apologies. Care Leavers and survivors of child abuse have inspired […]