Frank Golding

Author, Researcher, Historian

Month: July 2016

Ballarat’s Difficult History: Outcast Children

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This is an updated version of a paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Historical Association in Ballarat July 2016 Scene 1: 1956 I’m 18 and studying at the Ballarat Teachers’ College in Dana Street. It’s our weekly assembly. We all stand up to sing from our blue song-books: ‘Ballaarat’. A city built on […]

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Child Sexual Abuse in Out-of-Home Care

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in Forgotten Australians, Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,, Sexual Abuse, Uncategorized

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has recently released 55 submissions in response to their ‘Consultation Paper: Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Out-of-Home Care’ You can download and read the submissions here. This is my submission dated 11 March 2016. I became aware of the above Consultation Paper only […]

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