Mandy Nolan

4 days ago | echo.net.au | Mandy Nolan

I feel afraid. And I’m not a person who feels afraid of much. The world is at war, and our leaders are either too stupid, too addicted to power, and too coerced into silence or complicity to speak up. When will the Australian government ever grow the balls to stand up, and step away? This obsession with America, with this ludicrous allyship to a country that brazenly commits war crimes has to stop.

1 week ago | echo.net.au | Mandy Nolan

A good f*ckup changes your life… At the time it’s excruciating. But sometimes it opens a door to something quite unexpected. It was a f*ckup that was the foundation of one of my most treasured friendships and unexpected collaborations. About a decade ago, I was attending the glorious Bello Fest. A music festival where I hosted the opening night, and where I usually performed a solo stand-up show, with bodies pressed from floor to ceiling. Comedians are daggy. We’re never cool.

2 weeks ago | echo.net.au | Mandy Nolan

Anxiety disorders are the world’s most common mental health issue. And women are twice as likely to be diagnosed than men. Most anxiety has an onset during childhood or adolescence, but there’s no rules. Anxiety can be caused by stress, grief, illness or trauma at any time. Jules Allen is a social scientist and an anxiety treatment expert who believes that people can not only manage their anxiety, that if given the right tools, they can live a life free of it. ‘Anxiety is a fear of the unknown.

2 weeks ago | echo.net.au | Mandy Nolan

Everyone always says, ‘you should look after yourself’. I have always wondered what they mean. Do I have food in my teeth? Am I looking a bit rough? Is my tag sticking out? Does my breath smell? Did I even ask you? BTW never tell a woman she looks ‘tired’. It’s never appreciated. Looking tired is never up there with healthy and gorgeous. It means worn out. Ravaged. And shit. It’s up there with ‘well’, which we know means ‘a bit fat’. While I’m on this, maybe just stop commenting on what women look like.

3 weeks ago | echo.net.au | Mandy Nolan

Shoplifting shouldn’t kill you. In 2024 Coles supermarkets recorded an annual profit of $1.1billion. This was during our cost-of-living crisis. Coles and Woolworths chains control about two-thirds of the market. It’s why they have been accused of price gouging and colluding to drive up profits. Corporate theft. But hey, it’s okay. They’re corporations. Last week a 24-year-old Aboriginal man in Alice Springs died after shoplifting in Coles.