Father Long’s sacred nugget
18 June 2018 • Ron Manners
This story is set in Kanowna, about 20km east of Kalgoorlie. It’s a ghost town these days. But in Father Long's day, when WG …
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Buckets of money at Nugan Hand
11 June 2018 • Ron Manners
This is an excerpt from my book, Heroic Misadventures. Read the full story here by downloading the free ebook. My brief career in banking …
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Remembering Lang Hancock
10 June 2018 • Ron Manners
Lang Hancock will always be a legend and an icon of Australia. In 1963, he saved my life. I doubt he even realised. …
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Let public choice theory solve political puzzles
1 May 2018 • Ron Manners
The good news is that an accredited Public Choice Theory course will be available from The University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle …
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Australia: Four Decades – Full Circle
23 April 2018 • Ron Manners
There's a good reason why my book Heroic Misadventures is subtitled ‘Australia: Four Decades - Full Circle’. In the 1970s we saw Australia’s …
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What would Thomas Jefferson say?
13 April 2018 • Ron Manners
Today's guest writer, and birthday boy, is Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826). Jefferson was the third President of the US and principal author …
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Good government needs good policies: Why not try Enterprise Zones?
9 April 2018 • Ron Manners
In the dying days of the Malcolm Fraser Government, MP Malcolm called his team together and asked for ideas that might win them …
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Canberra is 200 square kilometres, surrounded by reality!
7 April 2018 • Ron Manners
In 2011, Canberra was named as the growth driver for Australia’s economy, even outpacing Western Australia at the time. Home building, new mortgages and …
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Aussie rules and economics
3 April 2018 • Ron Manners
Once at an economics conference I got into a lively discussion. We compared last century to an AFL game. Split into four quarters, …
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Do you want a ‘strong’ dollar or a ‘weak’ dollar?
27 February 2018 • Ron Manners
Which is best? Each day we read of special interest groups demanding government policies that will deliver either a ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ dollar. They …
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