Author, Researcher, Historian
The above is the title of a chapter that Katie Wright of LaTrobe University and I have written for Fault Lines: Australia’s Unequal Past, a book just off the presses from Monash University Publishing. You can buy the book at https://publishing.monash.edu/product/fault-lines/ The following is a near final version of our chapter. FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING, INDIFFERENCE […]
On 16 October 2025 I was invited to be the Guest Speaker at Ballarat Cafs AGM. Here is the text of my address. I started preparing this talk on the eve of The Australian Rules Football Grand Final. My mind was attuned to events with four quarters. Here’s an orphan’s life in four quarters. A […]
I was pleased to present the prestigious Spielvogel Oration by invitation of the Ballarat Historical Society on 21 May 2025. The Oration is an annual event in honour of Nathan Spielvogel, a public intellectual, historian, teacher, broadcaster, and writer (See Weston Bate’s short bio at https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/spielvogel-nathan-frederick-8607). I was proud and humbled to follow a long […]
On Social Work Day, Tuesday March 18 2025, I joined a panel at Monash University with A/Prof Susie Bawadie (Social Work Department) and Jacinta Woehl (who works at Seniors Rights) to discuss the theme for the day: “Strengthening Intergenerational Solidarity for Enduring Wellbeing”. This is how I summarised my thoughts about how the theme should […]
Earlier this year Edward Elgar published a new Handbook of Research Methods in Social Work. I contributed a chapter called “Documentary Analysis” with Shurlee Swain, Wendy Foote and Chris Krogh. Here is an Abstract: Writing is a practice as central to social work as listening. The capacity to write and the choices made when writing […]
A new article by Frank Golding, Sue McKemmish & Barbara Reed, published in Archives and Manuscripts https://publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/asa/article/view/11021/11949
History Council of Victoria Jane Hansen Prize for History Advocacy 2024 Awarded to Care Leavers Australasia Network (CLAN) This paper, a lightly edited version of the submission to the History Council of Victoria, was prepared by CLAN Life Member Dr Frank Golding OAM 17 November 2024. (Photos added by courtesy CLAN and personal sources.) […]
This new book co-authored by Dot Wickham and Frank Golding To be launched at Ballarat Trades Hall, Camp St Ballarat 6:30 pm on 24 May. All welcome REFUGE RESCUE REFORM 2024 cover 2 RRR Launch Click on links for further details. RRR Launch InfoREFUGE RESCUE REFORM 2024 cover 2
National Redress: Survivor engagement and conflict of interest This is an edited version of a paper I presented to the LSAANZ Conference, Voice, Resistance and Repair: Law and Living Together held at the University of Technology Sydney in December 2023. Introduction After some equivocation, on 4 November 2016, Australia’s Attorney-General, George Brandis, and Minister for […]
The Hon Jennifer Coate AO, a distinguished former Royal Commissioner, whose career encompasses many roles: Magistrate, Judge, President of the Children’ Court, State Coroner (among other roles) launched my book on Tuesday 16 April 2024. Almost 100 people from a wide spectrum of the child welfare sector attended. golding-invite-v1 Justice Coate gave an excellent analysis […]