Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box
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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’.
4 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 11 Byron Echo, Mandy Nolan's Soap Box, Articles & Columns -
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.
11 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 0 Byron Echo, Mandy Nolan's Soap Box, Articles & Columns -
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.
18 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 0 Byron Echo, Mandy Nolan's Soap Box, Articles & Columns -
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 →
25 days ago | Mandy Nolan | % Byron Echo, Mandy Nolan's Soap Box, Articles & Columns
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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’.
4 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 11 -
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.
11 days ago | 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.
18 days ago | Mandy Nolan | 0 -
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 →
25 days ago | 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 Nolans Soapbox: West We Forget
If the West Byron development goes ahead the Byron that you know, the Byron that we love, is dead. Murder. In plain daylight. Except this murder has been calculated, financed and sanctioned by the state. Allowing development at West Byron... Read More →
March 28, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 5 -
Mandy Nolans Soap Box: Dear Neighbour
It’s 7pm. Actually it’s five past. It’s Tuesday. You’ve got the whipper snipper out. At least that’s what it sounds like. High-pitched mechanical whirring at my precious wine time. That’s when I sit down for 10 minutes and have a glass of wine and talk to my husband.
March 21, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 9 -
Mandy Nolans Soap Box: Pretty Useless
Why do I spend so much time getting ready? The other morning I put the alarm on at 5am so I could get up and wash and blow dry my hair. It takes half an hour, and I knew if I didn’t get up early to do it I wouldn’t have time later in the day.
March 14, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 3 -
Mandy Nolans Soap Box: Feeling Toey
Last week I faced my fears. I went to the podiatrist. Her name was Louise. She was very nice. Very reassuring. It made me wonder why I’ve put it off for ten years.
March 7, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 1 -
Mandy Nolans Soap Box: Ardern’s Powerful Push
Last year when Jacinda Arden became New Zealand’s prime minister she also made history by being the world’s youngest female head of government. If that wasn’t enough for the army of cynical misogynists who control our media, now she’s having a baby.
February 28, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 4 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box: Bad Boy Barnaby
Poor baby Barnaby. He’s in twuble. He’s been a very, very naughty boy, caught with his political pants down, his cock in the cookie jar. It’s become evident that Mr ‘Family Values’ seems to value families so much he was attempting to have two at the same time.
February 21, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 11 -
Mandy Nolans Soap Box: Brave Nude World
After much contemplation I’ve come up with a solution for this tricky social conundrum that affects personal mores and the public conscience and has resulted in police taking to the beach in Landrovers to hunt down those hideously offensive nudies daring to swim on a deserted beach in their birthday suits.
February 14, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 12 -
Mandy Nolans Soap Box: Women are Rising
As a child I lived in domestic violence. As a young woman I was punched and kicked by four of my boyfriends. As an adult woman I have also lived in domestic violence.
February 7, 2018 | The Echo | 21 -
Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box: It’s the end of avo as we know it…
I can get my head around peak oil. I have come to grips with the polar caps melting. But what I can’t believe is that we are right in the middle of an avocado-based end-of-days scenario, an avocado armageddon. The worst has been realised.
January 31, 2018 | Mandy Nolan | 3
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.
