Author, Researcher, Historian
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 […]
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 […]
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? 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