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A significant Mannkal wedding

On Saturday, 3rd October, many of our Mannkal Team attended the marriage of our Executive Director, Andrew Pickford, to Shironi De Silva. It...

Match this legacy!

Today marks the birthday of Leonard E. Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education and author of the iconic free-market essay I,...

Are you being “mugged”?

We have had many challenges to face in 2020. Which to tackle first? Without the traditional wisdom of a reliable business or political...

Why you should download this free ebook!

Back in 2009 I published Heroic Misadventures: Australia, Four Decades, Full Circle in which I retold some of my experiences in the gold-mining industry...

Get up off your knees!

Enough of these ceremonial apologies, please! Is it time that we learned to think for ourselves instead of reacting to peer group pressure?...

Alcoa ‘on the nose’ again!

Alcoa is at it again! Ahead of seeking approval from the state government for a range of environmental approvals around its mines and...

Defending Competitive Capitalism

Recently I have been asked by two of our Mannkal Alumni almost identical questions covering the same difficulty of defending ‘free market capitalism’...

Covid-19: How one eatery was done like a dinner by the bureaucrats

As more and more well-informed opinions appear, it is becoming clear that much of the coronavirus lockdown was unnecessary.  We should have been isolating only...

Open letter to family, friends and supporters

Dear family, friends and supporters, It is with great pleasure that I humbly share with you the news that I have been included...

Get the economy moving again; you have to be joking!

Conflicts between government departments (federal, state and local) are as much a threat to each Australian’s prosperity, as is the Corona-Crisis itself. I...