Frank Golding

Author, Researcher, Historian

Care Leavers

CLAN wins History Council of Victoria Prize for History Advocacy

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in Activism, archives, Care Leaver Records, Care Leavers, CLAN (Care Leavers Australasia Network), disruptive histories and intangible heritage, Forgotten Australians, Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,, Royal Commission

  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.) […]

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National Redress: Survivor engagement and conflict of interest

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in Activism, Apologies, Care Leavers, disruptive histories and intangible heritage, Forgotten Australians, Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,, Redress, Royal Commission, Sexual Abuse

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 […]

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Refuge, Rescue and Reform: Voices of suffering and survival

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in Activism, Activism; archives; Loud Fences, archives, Care Leaver Records, Care Leavers, disruptive histories and intangible heritage, Forgotten Australians, gender equity, lived experience, living experience, Multi-generational institutionalisation, Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,, Sexual Abuse

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 […]

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Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in Activism, Care Leavers, disruptive histories and intangible heritage, lived experience, living experience, Participation

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 […]

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Do you care what you’re called?

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in Care Leavers, disruptive histories and intangible heritage, Forgotten Australians, Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,, Royal Commission

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 […]

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