Activism

The Challenge of Actualising Research in Practice: Implementing the Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out of Home Care

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

CLAN wins History Council of Victoria Prize for History Advocacy

  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.) […]

Book Launch “Refuge, Rescue & Reform: Voices of Suffering and Survival”

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

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.

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 […]

Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience

Opportunity for Care Leavers and others with direct experience of institutions and social work The British Journal of Social Work (BJSW) is inviting submissions to a special issue which will be written by people with lived experience to be published in Spring 2023. Context Harnessing the knowledge and expertise of people with lived experience is […]

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