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What happened to standards and trust in Australian politics? echo.net.au/2024/01/trashing…
Trashing Westminster traditions

Trashing Westminster traditions

As an eager Young Liberal in the 1980s, I was schooled by a generation of older Australians whose values were forged during World War II.

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Choosing to make a difference echo.net.au/2024/01/mandy-no… #knittingnannas
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Knitting the Big Cardigan of resistance

Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Knitting the Big Cardigan of resistance

Whenever anyone says, ‘There is nothing we can do,’ I think of the Knitting Nannas. I think of this powerful and politically potent group of older women who hold the frontline of so many impossible...

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You are a hero. You are my Australian of the Year. You have stood strong where many would have crumbled. echo.net.au/2023/12/mandy-no…
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: The White Dress

Mandy Nolans Soapbox: The White Dress

You don’t know me, and you probably won’t ever read this. But I want it to sit in the public record; something emotive and kind and human.  You are a hero. You are my Australian of the Year. You have...

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Father Christmas was replaced by a monster echo.net.au/2023/12/covering…
Covering Christmas: a Cracked Carol

Covering Christmas: a Cracked Carol

It was Christmas Eve. There was no doubt about that. The editor of his newspaper, full of the bonhomie of the season, had given Edward Herring a memo and assigned him to the graveyard shift that...

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A chance to value yourself echo.net.au/2023/12/the-gift…
The gift of me

The gift of me

The images from my childhood Christmases play like a super-8 film. They are grainy and disjointed. A sad child with a crooked fringe is in the corner of the frame.

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What does the future hold? echo.net.au/2023/12/where-ha…
Where have all the Christmas beetles gone?

Where have all the Christmas beetles gone?

Do you remember when we were inundated with Christmas beetles at this time of year? What happened to them, and can we revive the Christmas beetle spirit?

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Only Feet echo.net.au/2023/12/mandy-no…
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Two feet under

Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Two feet under

The internet is a very strange place. It does things to you when you’re sleeping. Today I was looking for an old article I wrote, so I googled myself. It was something I’d written on ‘feet’ as a...

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The future is in your hands echo.net.au/2023/12/dance-si…
Dance, sing and play more in 2024

Dance, sing and play more in 2024  

As a fierce sun finally fades, hundreds of people dance in the darkness, stars swirling above. This is not the Burning Man festival but an outdoor end of year school concert in Byron Bay last week. 

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Poorest are suffering echo.net.au/2023/12/mandy-no…
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Why We’re Stealing Bread Again

Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Why We’re Stealing Bread Again

The other day I watched someone put their groceries back. They were at the checkout anxiously watching the tally. I know that feeling. It’s something I’ve done many times in the past. Especially when...

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Examining the 'No' vote echo.net.au/2023/12/editoria…
Editorial – Don’t know, don’t care

Editorial – Don’t know, don’t care

The victorious ‘No’ camp is oddly reluctant to examine the roots of its cruel snub to our First Nations peoples.

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Defending all women echo.net.au/2023/12/the-test…
The test of sisterhood

The test of sisterhood

In 2003, when I introduced myself as an MP with my maiden speech in parliament, I articulated my centralist, small ‘l’ liberal principles. I argued that values are not something to be on display in...

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Taking action echo.net.au/2023/12/direct-a…
Direct action – antidote to despair

Direct action – antidote to despair

The truth about climate change is alarming to say the least. But I was heartened over the weekend of November 25 and 26 to hear it discussed with great clarity and nuance at the Rising blockade of...

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How to move forward? echo.net.au/2023/12/peace-to…
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Peace Today Peace Tomorrow

Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Peace Today Peace Tomorrow

Why is peace so hard? As the assault on Gaza resumes I am reminded of the quote by Albert Einstein: ‘Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding’.

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What does the Voice result tell us? #VoiceReferendum echo.net.au/2023/11/truth-te…
Truth-telling beyond the Voice referendum

Truth-telling beyond the Voice referendum

In order to transcend the disappointment of the Voice referendum, many political and Aboriginal leaders are focusing on ‘truth-telling’.

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Time to give echo.net.au/2023/11/erring-o…
Erring on the side of kindness

Erring on the side of kindness

There is one thing we can all do in these wretched times of powerlessness and overwhelming sorrow. Give. 

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By six I had witnessed countless incidents of domestic violence echo.net.au/2023/11/mandy-no…
Mandy Nolan's Soapbox: End Patriarchy. End Violence.

Mandy Nolan's Soapbox: End Patriarchy. End Violence.

When I was six years old my father was killed in a car accident. By then I had witnessed countless incidents of domestic violence. I had seen my father physically and verbally abusing my mother. I...

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Linking ecocide to religion echo.net.au/2023/11/ecocide/
Ecocide

Ecocide 

Linking ecocide to religion, Dr John Wilson brings psychedelics, psychology and ecology together in his latest book Ecocide. Regarding our ecological crisis as more urgent than the urban distress he...

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Support young people fight for their future echo.net.au/2023/11/editoria…
Editorial – Young people fight for a future

Editorial – Young people fight for a future

Young people are fighting for their future. They are asking governments to stop approving fossil-fuel operations and to put the money, focus and opportunity towards technology and options that will...

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What's your best high? echo.net.au/2023/11/mandy-no…

Mandy Nolans Soapbox: L’appel du vide

I am scared of heights Which is ironic because I’m six foot tall. And I wear heels.  And I’m a Capricorn. It appears my destiny is to inhabit high places. It’s a weird fear. I don’t remember ever not...

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The endless idiocy of Tony Abbott For a bloke on a very large pension, former Prime Minister the not-so-honourable Tony Abbott is working very hard for the Institute of Public Affairs these days. @TheIPA @HonTonyAbbott #Auspol2023 echo.net.au/2023/11/the-endl…
The endless idiocy of Tony Abbott

The endless idiocy of Tony Abbott

For a bloke on a very large pension, former Prime Minister the not-so-honourable Tony Abbott is working very hard for the Institute of Public Affairs these days. His latest IPA speech in London was...

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