Frank Golding

Author, Researcher, Historian

Shurlee Swain

Breaking the Barrier of Silence around Child Sexual Abuse

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,, Sexual AbuseTagged , , ,

Professor Shurlee Swain’s  third paper for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is a fascinating survey of previous royal commissions and other official inquiries in Australia. “The History of Australian inquiries reviewing institutions providing care for children” (2014) identifies 83 Australian inquiries. Download the paper here. The first, a NSW Select Committee on Destitute […]

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Child Protection – A History of Australian Laws

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,Tagged , , , ,

The History of Child Protection Legislation in Australia  Shurlee Swain’s first paper for the Royal Commission  (I’m not sure the three papers are meant to be read in any set order) surveys the legislation relating to the out-of-home care of children. The paper can be downloaded here. Reminding us that child welfare in Australia was […]

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