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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: The War Against Women
We must stop using the term ‘domestic violence.’ It dilutes the gravity of the issue at hand. Domestic violence is far too soft. What we are facing isn’t domestic violence, there is a war against women. This is gender terrorism. It’s time for zero tolerance. It’s time for action from good men.
Yesterday | Mandy Nolan | 5 Byron Echo, Mandy Nolan's Soapbox, Articles & Columns -
Storylines: Unite and act
At this particular point in time, I am troubled – troubled by this country, Australia, that is destroying our lifeline, an essential component of all of our existences – Mother Earth. Is it possible for all of us to rise and meet the challenges that are now being presented to us all?
2 days ago | Echonetdaily | 3 Storylines, Articles & Columns -
Thus Spake Mungo: It’s a tech wreck
Scott Morrison’s government of denialists and cowards has found a new evasion to dodge the reality of climate change: it is re-running a favourite buzzword: technology.
2 days ago | Mungo MacCallum | 11 Byron Echo, Thus Spake Mungo -
When motor neuron disease came into my life
There are events in our life that we call ‘life changing’ and there are events that are life-markers: scars from trauma and bad experiences that never heal. But there are also events that transform us, that lift us out of an unthinkable event.
6 days ago | Echonetdaily | % Byron Echo, Articles & Columns
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Cartoon of the week – February 27, 2020
Letters to the editor We love to receive letters, but not every letter will be published; the publication of letters is at the discretion of the online and print letters editors. The deadline for the Byron Echo newspaper is noon Friday and letters... Read More →
10 hours ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: The War Against Women
We must stop using the term ‘domestic violence.’ It dilutes the gravity of the issue at hand. Domestic violence is far too soft. What we are facing isn’t domestic violence, there is a war against women. This is gender terrorism. It’s time for zero tolerance. It’s time for action from good men.
Yesterday | Mandy Nolan | 5 -
Storylines: Unite and act
At this particular point in time, I am troubled – troubled by this country, Australia, that is destroying our lifeline, an essential component of all of our existences – Mother Earth. Is it possible for all of us to rise and meet the challenges that are now being presented to us all?
2 days ago | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Thus Spake Mungo: It’s a tech wreck
Scott Morrison’s government of denialists and cowards has found a new evasion to dodge the reality of climate change: it is re-running a favourite buzzword: technology.
2 days ago | Mungo MacCallum | 11 -
Getting to know your neighbours
How to use the digital age to meet the neighbour next door?
5 days ago | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Editorial – Dear Greens voter
The local Green councillors you elected in 2016 have little interest in protecting or enhancing the environmental credentials of this region and do the bidding of wealthy developers, Council planning staff and the National Party.
5 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 1 -
When motor neuron disease came into my life
There are events in our life that we call ‘life changing’ and there are events that are life-markers: scars from trauma and bad experiences that never heal. But there are also events that transform us, that lift us out of an unthinkable event.
6 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Compassion card
I join Mandy Nolan (5 February Soapbox) in condemning the roll-out of the gormless government’s cashless debit card. It will compel Newstart recipients to spend their meagre income in specific supermarkets and department stores.
6 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
People’s Climate Assembly calls for action
The People’s Climate Assembly gathered outside Australia’s Federal Parliament on the first day of sitting, on 4 February ‘to make a stand against the ignorance of the Australian government, and to demand real action in the face of the climate change emergency.’
6 days ago | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: On Female Friendships
maybe, in this three weeks that sit between Valentine’s Day and International Women’s Day we could celebrate the power and beauty of our female friendships? Let’s have a frizzy-hair tracksuit-pants day to honour the love and loyalty of our female friends.
One week ago | The Echo | 5 -
Inner circle of jerks
What makes a good leader? Perhaps one who surrounds themselves with others who hold a diverse range of expert views or even challenge the ideologies of that leader.
8 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 6 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Cunning stunts
For once, the conservative commentariat has got it right – up to a point.
9 days ago | Mungo MacCallum | 23 -
Press freedom and the art of making democracy great again
Before the invention of the printing press, many people didn’t know how to read, even less how to write, and it was too expensive to own a book.
11 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
True cost of Byron’s ‘free’ camping
As the fantasy of freedom and a cheap holiday leads more people to hire vans and take advantage of the beauty of Byron Shire and surrounding areas the impacts on both the residents and nature are becoming a major issue.
12 days ago | Echonetdaily | 18 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: The Lesson of Coronavirus
Coronavirus is the word on everyone’s lips right now. I guess it’s why most of them are wearing masks. The other day I made the mistake of booking a flight back from Sydney to the Gold Coast on the international... Read More →
14 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 9 -
Planet Watch: Drowning not waving – tales from a dying ocean
This month Planet Watch explores how climate change will affect the oceans and its creatures.
16 days ago | Echonetdaily | 13 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Nats at play
In the broad stream of politics, it seldom matters which Nationals are in the coalition ministry and which aren’t.
16 days ago | Mungo MacCallum | 12 -
There is no life without water: time to save
Yes, the recent rain is wonderful, but acting on water use restrictions must become our usual way of life, at least until the drought is over.
20 days ago | Mary Gardner | 1 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: The Compassion Card
Jimmy is living in his car. He’s long-term unemployed and you can’t live in Sydney, or many other places in this country, on $500 a fortnight. Shit you can’t live on $500 a week.
21 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 21 -
Support for teachers and students post bushfire
The consequences of this summer's bushfires will reverberate for many years into the future and schools will be getting extra help to get them through.
22 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Thus Spake Mungo: To market
Scott Morrison is nothing if not a marketeer. Or, to put it more precisely, he is nothing except a marketeer.
23 days ago | Mungo MacCallum | 18 -
On the art of stealing water for profit
Australia is now experiencing devastating fires. So far, it is estimated that over 18 million hectares (46 million acres) have burned. The response from our leaders has been deplorable.
26 days ago | Echonetdaily | 8 -
Editorial: Polarised humbug
Every Australia Day, polarised humbug erupts from those who want to just wave a flag to celebrate their culture, and those who see that Aussie flag as a symbol of British genocide and invasion.
27 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 6 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Middle-Aged Mummy Angry About Sugar Daddy
Listen you creepy old rich fucks, leave our young women alone. Stop offering them the rich daddy they never had. It’s pedophilic. When Marilyn Monroe used her baby-girl voice to sing My heart belongs to daddy the flaccid cocks of ageing patriarchs around the world stood to attention.
28 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 17 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Matt Kean
Scott Morrison’s puerile sneer that most of his cabinet ministers wouldn’t even know who (NSW Environment Minister) Matt Kean was actually contains a grain of truth.
January 27, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 13
