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  1. Killing and Stealing: Government Specialties

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  2. Manipulated Students Strike – Where are our leaders?

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  3. All that jazz

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Ron’s long career has taken him to a number of major world events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of communism in Russia and the Hong Kong handover. Mining is in Ron’s blood. His grandfather WG Manners, the son...

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Killing and Stealing: Government Specialties

18 April 2019  •  Ron Manners

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Manipulated Students Strike – Where are our leaders?

9 April 2019  •  Ron Manners

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#13 – Rule for Life: ‘Take every job seriously’

1 March 2019  •  Ron Manners

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Taxation: How times have changed

4 February 2019  •  Ron Manners

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The absurdity of Australia’s submarine frolic?

15 January 2019  •  Ron Manners

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A birthday poem

8 January 2019  •  Ron Manners

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When dealing with politicians or bureaucrats the first and guiding principle should always be: Avoid paying them too much attention as it only encourages them. The other guiding principle is to fight a bad philosophy with a good philosophy, but at all times be polite.

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Reason and Doubt — The Christian Roots of Liberty

23 January 2018

Reverend Peter Kurti is a Research Fellow co-ordinating the Religion and Civil Society program at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney. The …

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Ron Manners’ five books all now available as free e-books

Ron Manners is digitising his archives and granting free access, with more coming soon in every category.

Poems of Passion

Ron Manners

Heroic Misadventures

Ron Manners

Never A Dull Moment

Charles Manners, Nancy Manners and Ron Manners

Kanowna’s Barrowman

George Compton and Ron Manners

So I Headed West

WG Manners

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