Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box

I think we’ve reached Peak Stuff. Ironically, we in the first world have most of the stuff, and we made it with stuff we took from people in the third world, aka ‘stuff quarries’. People in the third world don’t... Read More →

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.

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.

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.