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  1. All that jazz

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  2. Never clean the coffee machine again!

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  3. Australian Mining Hall of Fame acceptance speech

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Let me share some ideas & adventures

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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Earlier Stories

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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All that jazz

7 January 2019  •  Ron Manners

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Australia Day honours another legend

7 January 2019  •  Ron Manners

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Stan Perron AM (1922-2018): A tribute

3 December 2018  •  Ron Manners

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Why didn’t someone tell me? (Life has no shortcuts)

23 November 2018  •  Ron Manners

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When the people lead, the leaders will follow.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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