Ballarat Orphanage – Frank Golding

Ballarat’s Difficult History: Outcast Children

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on 25 July 201625 July 2016Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ballarat Orphanage, Benevolent Asylum, Brookside, Heritage Council Victoria, Industrial School, Nazareth House, Reformatory, St Joseph's4 Comments

This is an updated version of a paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Historical Association in Ballarat July 2016 Scene 1: 1956 I’m 18 and studying at the Ballarat Teachers’ College in Dana Street. It’s our weekly assembly. We all stand up to sing from our blue song-books: ‘Ballaarat’. A city built on […]

10 Blunders in Child Welfare

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on 16 September 201413 October 2014Posted in Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,Tagged absconding, adoption, Arthur Kenny, Auditor-General, Ballarat Orphanage, Betrayal of Trust Report, boarding out, censorship, child labour, childhood records, deserving and undeserving poor, educational opportunity, Forgotten Australians, foster care, gender stereotypes, IQ testing, medical experiments on children, Norgard Inquiry, Ombusdman, poverty, residential care, rights of parents, Royal Commission Child Sexual Abuse, Senate Committee, third party redaction, Tony Abbott, unemployed6 Comments

UPDATE The ten worst blunders in child welfare in Australia since 1788. COUNT DOWN TO NUMBER 1 It has been hard deciding which of all the many mistakes of the past – and those which continue to be made – warrants the title “the worst”. But here it is. BLUNDER # 1: Having inflicted significant damage on children […]