Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box
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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: SAVE BYRON
Next time you blow a tyre on a pothole in our Shire, don’t curse Council, curse your neighbours who live in Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane and rent their house out on Airbnb or Booking.com. It’s their greed that put it there.
6 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 9 Byron Echo, Mandy Nolan's Soap Box, Articles & Columns -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Good mums don’t read
When I first started watching Handmaid’s Tale, I thought it was simply a disturbing fairytale set in a totalitarian society where fertility is controlled through the oppression and subjugation of women as breeding stock.
13 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 9 Byron Echo, Mandy Nolan's Soap Box, Articles & Columns -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Fake it till you make it
I have used manipulation to gain love. It’s not a very attractive admission, but there you have it. I am guilty. It was a few years ago when my middle daughter Sophia was being particularly difficult.
20 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 5 Byron Echo, Mandy Nolan's Soap Box, Articles & Columns -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Les Enfants Terribles & the Fight for the Bike
I have privileged white man fatigue. Frankly I’m sick of the pricks. The recent Liberal party room ‘I want a turn’ tantrum just left me and a lot of Australians cold.
27 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 4 Byron Echo, Mandy Nolan's Soap Box, Articles & Columns
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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: SAVE BYRON
Next time you blow a tyre on a pothole in our Shire, don’t curse Council, curse your neighbours who live in Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane and rent their house out on Airbnb or Booking.com. It’s their greed that put it there.
6 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 9 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Good mums don’t read
When I first started watching Handmaid’s Tale, I thought it was simply a disturbing fairytale set in a totalitarian society where fertility is controlled through the oppression and subjugation of women as breeding stock.
13 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 9 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Fake it till you make it
I have used manipulation to gain love. It’s not a very attractive admission, but there you have it. I am guilty. It was a few years ago when my middle daughter Sophia was being particularly difficult.
20 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 5 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Les Enfants Terribles & the Fight for the Bike
I have privileged white man fatigue. Frankly I’m sick of the pricks. The recent Liberal party room ‘I want a turn’ tantrum just left me and a lot of Australians cold.
27 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 4 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Gluten revenge
For years I have made jokes about gluten-intolerant people. They’re unkind jokes that refer to that particular group as rather depressed despondent people huddled over hard blocks of angry bread.
August 22, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 14 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Let’s drink to your health
Okay, fill up your glass – it’s time to celebrate. The results are in. Moderate drinkers live longer than abstainers. As long as they don’t fall off stuff when they’ve had a few.
August 15, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 3 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Free the Nipple, the 2-point plan for parity
I have never really understood the fuss society makes about women’s breasts. In one instance they are displayed in lacy bras on billboards or pertly at attention in magazines where they are overly sexualised, coveted and adored, and on the... Read More →
August 8, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 6 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Be an early opter
I just love people I’ve never met making decisions about my wellbeing. Especially when I’m not consulted. My Health Record is the latest gift from Big Brother, or should we call him Big Doctor?
August 1, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 15 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: When Uber hits they don’t miss
Last week an Uber driver ran over my daughter. She only gave the driver one star. Zero stars and ‘Driver ran me over’ wasn’t an option. It happened like this…
July 25, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 13 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Freedom of No Freedom
According to Malcolm Turnbull, sometimes the best freedom in the world is actually having none. It’s so wonderful being ‘Free… of being Free’.
July 18, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 12 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: The Naked Lunch
Bed bugs have bit my butt. What a joyous fleshy target. I imagine them on their late-night Grecian feeding frenzy, drunk on the blood of a stupid Aussie traveller. It’s unbecoming for a lady to scratch her arse but I don’t care.
July 11, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 0 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Who Would You Rather?
I think about sex a lot. Being a woman that’s supposed to be unusual. It’s supposed to be men who think about sex. There’s a statistic that says men think about sex every seven seconds. Thats about 8,000 times a day.
July 4, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 1 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Socks appeal
There’s one saying I particularly hate: it’s ‘pull up your socks’. It kind of refers I guess to a sense of self-reliance and comes from an era when you were just expected to suffer quietly and not make your life’s... Read More →
June 27, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 1 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Domination
I’ve been a feminist since I was 17. When people asked me why, I told them that I believed women needed to be equal to men. I told them that we lived in a patriarchal society where who we were was defined by what we were not: namely, we were not men.
June 20, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 17 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Are You Matt Damon?
Matt Damon spotting is becoming a bit like whale watching around here. In fact I’ve seen Matt three times this year already and haven’t seen one whale. It’s weird seeing famous people – it’s hard to have a natural conversation.
June 13, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 2 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: To Vex or Vax?
If Shakespeare wrote a play to sum up the underlying angst of Mullumbimby, his first line would be ‘To Vax or not to Vax. That is the question.’ I vax.
June 6, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 75 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Feel like a lift?
If you ask people to name their top 10 fears I can pretty well guarantee that getting stuck in a lift would be one of them. It’s certainly one of mine. The other night I got trapped in a lift – and this is how it happened…
May 30, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 2 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Guns before kids
I can’t understand why America loves guns so much. At this point in history it would appear that those in power love their guns more than they love their kids because they’d rather protect their right to bear arms than create safe spaces for children.
May 23, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 6 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Killing them softly
This weekend just past Australia awoke to the story of the horrific shooting in Margaret River. Seven people shot in a murder/suicide where a husband shot his wife, a father shot his daughter and a grandfather shot his four grandchildren.
May 16, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 2 -
Mandy Nolans Soap Box: I don’t usually like female comedians…
This is the beginning of a sentence that women comedians hear all the time. It’s usually a pissed person after the show who thinks they’re complimenting you by telling you that you’re the best female comedian they have EVER seen.
May 9, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 0 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: The Wrath of the Unrootables
Sick of women ruling the world? Tired of people saying you can’t rape chicks? Tired of feminists ruining your fun by insisting on things like an end to violence against women, consent and equity in the workplace and the world?... Read More →
May 2, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 5 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box: Sleep with me
Most nights I sleep around. Not how I used to in my twenties; these days it’s just me bed hopping around the house. I don’t remember the last time I went to sleep and woke up the next morning.
April 25, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 0 -
Mandy Nolans Soap Box: Every bin has a single lining
Just over 12 months ago I stopped using plastic bags. After seeing picture of the devastating impacts one billion-plus bags per day have on our environment. It’s hard to use a plastic bag guilt free one you’ve seen one kill a turtle. Or choke a fish.
April 18, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 3 -
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Pull my trigger
Trigger Warning: This article contains ideas that may trigger people who are triggered by ideas, especially ones they don’t agree with. It may refer to content that makes you uncomfortable. If this is you, don’t read on. Or maybe you should.
April 11, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 3 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box: Ball tampering – who cares?
How exactly does a ball make headlines? Malcolm TurnBALL – oops, Turnbull – must have been delighted that it was the leader of the Aussie cricket team, and not the country, copping the heat for letting everyone down.
April 4, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 4
Mandy Nolan
Mandy Nolan has performed as a standup comedian for more than 20 years. During that time, she has worked alongside celebrities such as Whoopi Goldberg, Ertha Kit, and Bob Downe. Amid a full schedule of live acts, television and radio appearances, a weekly press column in The Echo and a comedy course (did we mention she also has five children?), Mandy also finds time as a MC, presenter and conference facilitator.
See Mandy’s Soapbox every week here in Echonetdaily.
