Author, Researcher, Historian
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
My PhD thesis from Federation University Australia is now available on line. This is a very brief summary: Australia has a long history of removing children from their families when they are deemed to be neglected or ‘in moral danger’. Placed in orphanages, children’s Homes and foster ‘care’ out of the public gaze, these children […]