September 2014 – Frank Golding

10 Blunders in Child Welfare

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on 16 September 201413 October 2014Posted in Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,Tagged absconding, adoption, Arthur Kenny, Auditor-General, Ballarat Orphanage, Betrayal of Trust Report, boarding out, censorship, child labour, childhood records, deserving and undeserving poor, educational opportunity, Forgotten Australians, foster care, gender stereotypes, IQ testing, medical experiments on children, Norgard Inquiry, Ombusdman, poverty, residential care, rights of parents, Royal Commission Child Sexual Abuse, Senate Committee, third party redaction, Tony Abbott, unemployed6 Comments

UPDATE The ten worst blunders in child welfare in Australia since 1788. COUNT DOWN TO NUMBER 1 It has been hard deciding which of all the many mistakes of the past – and those which continue to be made – warrants the title “the worst”. But here it is. BLUNDER # 1: Having inflicted significant damage on children […]

Indefinite Detention of Asylum Seekers Not Lawful

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on 12 September 20146 October 2014Posted in UncategorizedTagged Asylum seekers, children in detention, Frank Golding, refugees, temporary protection visas

After a long period of ambivalent rulings, the Australian High Court on Thursday (11 December 2014) finally defined the limits of mandatory detention of asylum seekers. In recent years, many of us in Australia have been disturbed by what seemed to be a routinised indefinite detention of thousands of refugees, including children. “Since September 2013, the average time spent in […]