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Forgetting and Remembering, Indifference and Recognition

The above is the title of a chapter that Katie Wright of LaTrobe University and I have written for Fault Lines: Australia’s Unequal Past, a book just off the presses from Monash University Publishing. You can buy the book at https://publishing.monash.edu/product/fault-lines/ The following is a near final version of our chapter.   FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING, INDIFFERENCE […]

Social Work Day – “Strengthening Intergenerational Solidarity for Enduring Wellbeing”

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 […]

New Book Chapter Documentary Analysis

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 […]

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 […]

Whose history is it, anyway?

Dr Frank Golding OAM This is a lightly edited version of the article which was published in IQ Magazine in September 2022 and was awarded RIMPA Global 2022 iQ Article of the Year Award (RIMPA is Records Information Managers Practitioners Alliance). The codification of children’s rights extends back to the early decades of the 20th […]

Article of the year

RIMPA Global (Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance)RIMPA Global (Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance)3,297 followers3,297 followers 🏆✨ Celebrating Excellence at the RIMPA Live 2023 Black Tie Gala Dinner! ✨🏆 📚 iQ Article of the Year: A standing ovation for Dr Frank Golding OAM, whose powerful article “Who’s history is it, anyway?” delved into the lives of children […]

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