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  1. What would Thomas Jefferson say?

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  2. Canberra is 200 square kilometres, surrounded by reality!

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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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What would Thomas Jefferson say?

13 April 2018  •  Ron Manners

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Good Government Needs Good Policies (Why not try Enterprise Zones?)

9 April 2018  •  Ron Manners

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Canberra is 200 square kilometres, surrounded by reality!

7 April 2018  •  Ron Manners

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Aussie rules and economics

3 April 2018  •  Ron Manners

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Do you want a ‘strong’ dollar or a ‘weak’ dollar?

27 February 2018  •  Ron Manners

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Growing up on the Goldfields: Part 2

6 February 2018  •  Ron Manners

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Those who give us this advice are forgetting one thing, which is that we do not aspire so much to overturn the protective regime as to enlighten the general public about this regime, or rather, although the first of these tasks is the aim, the second appears to us to be the essential means.

Frederic Bastiat

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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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