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 […]
Launch of That’s Not My Child: Five generations on the welfare treadmill
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 […]
Refuge, Rescue and Reform: Voices of suffering and survival
Another book! I’m very pleased to announce that a book Dot Wickham and I have been working on for a few years is finally at the printers and will be launched in Ballarat by Hon. Catherine King MP, the Minister for Transport on 24 May as part of the Ballarat Heritage Festival. The publisher is […]
New Publication: That’s Not My Child
I’m pleased to announce that my book, That’s Not My Child: Five Generations on the Welfare Treadmill will be released on 12 March 2024 by Australian Scholarly Press under their Arcadia imprint. Clink on the images to enlarge them.
Whose pain? Whose shame?
‘Whose pain? Whose shame? Integrating heritage and histories in Ballarat, Australia’ An article pushed online today by the International Journal of Heritage Studies Here’s the link to read it: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2024.2320319
Whose history is it, anyway?
Dr Frank Golding OAM This is a lightly edited version of the article which was published in IQ Magazine in September 2022 and was awarded RIMPA Global 2022 iQ Article of the Year Award (RIMPA is Records Information Managers Practitioners Alliance). The codification of children’s rights extends back to the early decades of the 20th […]
Article of the year
RIMPA Global (Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance)RIMPA Global (Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance)3,297 followers3,297 followers 🏆✨ Celebrating Excellence at the RIMPA Live 2023 Black Tie Gala Dinner! ✨🏆 📚 iQ Article of the Year: A standing ovation for Dr Frank Golding OAM, whose powerful article “Who’s history is it, anyway?” delved into the lives of children […]
Care Leavers speak back to history
“If only they’d kept proper records”: Care Leavers speak back to history: A paper by Frank Golding at a seminar titled ‘Honouring stories of struggle: reassessing Australian records of disadvantage’, Canberra, 21 October 2022. The seminar was sponsored by the Steering Committee of the Documenting Australian Society of the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World […]
Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience
The British Journal of Social Work has released an online version of its Special Issue titled Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience. I’m proud to have been invited to be a member of a guest editorial panel for this ground-breaking initiative. It’s a bumper issue with 14 academic papers 38 reflective pieces and […]
Do you care what you’re called?
Caring about language, knowledge, rights and identity: Discourse analysis and framing the problem: a paper for the National Aged & Community Care Roundtable for Forgotten Australians Frank Golding, On line 8 February 2023 Over the past decade or two I’ve been doing a lot of research and advocacy on Care Leaver voice and agency. My PhD […]