PUBLISHED ARTICLES: Parity Vol25-01 (April)  READ Pages 22- 24 OLDER, WISER AND FLAT BROKE By Julie Boyd March 13, 2012 Published by The Hoopla http://thehoopla.com.au/older-wiser-flat-broke/ The return of Bob Carr to the political sphere has been much heralded, as he will reportedly bring ‘wisdom’ and ‘gravitas’ due to his age and experience. Despite our woman Prime Minister […]

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https://web.archive.org/web/20190601070513/https:/open.abc.net.au/people/11049 https://web.archive.org/web/20190601144838/https://open.abc.net.au/explore/76707   Vale Robin By Julie Boyd ·  2 min read · From 500 Words: Right here, Right now Over the Golden Gate bridge if you turn right and follow your nose, you’ll end up in Sausalito, a beautiful artistic enclave on the edge of San Francisco Bay, The home, at the time, of my friend and work colleague, Jeanne. […]

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I left the Catholic Church, in my head, when I was 10 years old in my first year at a Catholic Boarding School. The day I was ‘confirmed’ by a bloke we knew was abusing kids at our boarding school, I refused to ‘kiss his ring’. That was the day I confirmed my ‘loss of […]

By Julie Boyd (C) When working as a psychologist there were two cases which had a more profound impact that the hundreds of others I was involved with at the time. The first was a teenage girl who was pregnant. She was referred by a teacher who was concerned about her. At the time mandatory […]