Frank Golding

Author, Researcher, Historian

Find & Connect

Grants for Documenting Care Leaver Records

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in Care Leaver RecordsTagged ,

Copy of a  Find & Connect  blog post announcing a new grants round by Genevieve Wauchope  |  RAD2 Grants Officer, Find & Connect project:  A new round of the Records Access Documentation grants for organisations to document records relating to care leavers will open in October. Successful projects will be funded to $15 000. The grants are being funded as part […]

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The Paradox of Memorials for the Forgotten

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in UncategorizedTagged , ,

A very interesting article on the Find & Connect blog about memorials around Australia to remember children who grew up in orphanages, children’s Home, and other institutions and in foster ‘care’. (Read it here)  This blog post  raises again the issue I’ve written about before: is the label ‘Forgotten Australians’ any longer appropriate? Isn’t there an inherent contradiction being […]

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