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Leonard Read’s 1978 seminar for his Australian friends

Ron’s audio recording: Transcript: [Ron’s intro, louder than Read’s speech:] I’m in Hong Kong on Thursday, September 7th. It’s Leonard Read accepting an...

Murray Rothbard speech on libertarianism in 1978 USA

Rothbard’s speech at the 1st International Libertarian Conference in Hong Kong, September 7, 1978. Recorded by Ron Manners. I’m going to keep it...

Viv Forbes on Libertarian Strategy

Viv Forbes, “The Libertarian Movement in Australia,” a five minute address to a special meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in Hong Kong,...

Weak Executives Mean Strong Bureaucracies

[Here is the text of a speech by Lang Hancock from Ron Manners’ archives, dated August 10, 1978. A hand-written note says the...

Lang Hancock on improving Japan-Australia relationship

HOLD UNTIL 2.00 PM E.S.T. APRIL, 18, 1978 Improving Japan-Australia relationship It was claimed by officialdom that Australia would probably be importing iron...

Dr Peter Richardson MP leaves Liberals for Progress Party

Transcript of document printed on the letterhead of Dr Peter Richardson, Federal Member for Tangney, dated October 14, 1977. The Elector The Electorate...

Ron Manners: Tax Rebel from the West (1977)

Audio: Transcript: I’m sure everybody is going be very interested, because Ron doesn’t really believe in governments, from what I gather. Is this...

Adman John loves to be hated but he’s no slob

Tricia Duffield, “Adman John loves to be hated but he’s no slob,” Sunday Independent, July 17, 1977, pp. 6-7. And now I’d like...

Kalgoorlie (and Australia) Lookin’ Good, Feelin’ Awful

Introductory comment from Ron on December 1, 2015: "Although written for an economic seminar in 1977, it's amazing how pertinent these comments are...

1976 Hayek Australian TV interview on freedom, the marketplace, the individual and the state

Audio: Transcript: PROFESSOR FRIEDRICH HAYEK: Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 1974 ROBERT MOORE, ABC: Executive Producer and Programme Anchorman AND AN AUDIENCE...

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