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 […]
Loud Fences
The tacit semantics of ‘Loud Fences’: tracing the connections between activism, heritage and new histories This article written by Associate Professor Jacqueline Wilson and I was published in the International Journal of Heritage Studies on 11 May 2017 ABSTRACT In 2015, in response to harrowing accounts of child sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy in […]
Lost and found: counter-narratives of dis/located families
Lost and found: counter-narratives of dis/located families This is the Abstract for a paper presented at a symposium of the Dis/located Children’s Network in Adelaide on 16 December by Frank Golding in collaboration with Associate Professor Jacqueline Z Wilson of Federation University Australia Conventional histories of children in institutional care are dominated by the voices […]
Royal Commission in New Zealand
HUI ON THE ROYAL COMMISSION IN NEW ZEALAND Leonie Sheedy, CEO of CLAN, and I were invited to participate in a hui (gathering or workshop) in Wellington, New Zealand on 14-15 February. The purpose of the hui was to discuss the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the NZ Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse […]
Hope Street
Hope Street: From Voice to Agency for Care-Leavers in Higher Education This is a new article written by Dr Jacqueline Wilson, Dr Philip Mendes and myself just published in the latest issue of Life Writing In summary: In the early 1980s, one of the authors became an adolescent ward of the State of Victoria, Australia, […]
The Missing Dads of Spring Street
This is a piece I wrote for the Melbourne Herald-Sun nearly a decade ago. It was published on 4 September 2008 in time for Father’s Day. The editor cut it back a bit to fit the space he was allowing. It’s a bit dated in the detail, as you will see, but the sentiment still […]
Lost & Found: State Children in Victoria (6)
DOWNSIZING—DESIRABLE BUT NOT ALWAYS EASY One last example, because it shows that changes in welfare policy were not uniform or consistent: St Joseph’s Homes for Children in Flemington 1981-1997: the Family Group Homes era. It’s probably true to say that, broadly speaking, child-savers like Selina Sutherland and those involved in the boarding-out movement were […]