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Canberra’s Grasping Predators

On September 13, 1981 the Sunday Independent newspaper published an open letter from myself to then Federal Treasurer John Howard. My remarks were...

Bureaucracy v Public: an open letter to the Consumer Affairs Bureau 1976

In the days of Perth’s Sunday Independent, a good letter to the editor was not only published, but also served as inspiration for...

Berlin Wall: 30th anniversary after the fall

So much has been written in this past week regarding the Fall of the Wall, what else can I possibly add? Reading so...

Hong Kong protests

Some reflective thoughts I’ve just returned from my old ‘home-town’ of Hong Kong, bringing with me some vivid impressions of what is going...

Why another book?

Anthony Cappello (Connor Court Publishing) suggested I write a book about myself. My immediate response was, “I’ve already done that, and it’s called...

Who Benefits While You Pay?

When any orthodox economist from the Democratic Land of Oz talks of policies designed in the ‘public interest’ or the ‘national interest’, I...

Earlier governments made mistakes too

Much attention is focused on the current catalogue of defective policy decisions by Australia’s Federal Government. July 4 marks the 21st anniversary of...

Public Choice Theory explains how Western values are being eroded

Being an optimist, I am enjoying the many signs of “sprouting concern” about the destructive influence of the “long march” through our institutions...

Business working with academia

(From my comments to a Vice Chancellor’s lunch in Perth, March 7 2019) “Today, our Mannkal Foundation’s team values greatly this opportunity to...

Sir Arvi Parbo, AC – RIP

The world mourns the death of a mining legend. Sir Arvi died peacefully, at his home in Melbourne, today at the age of...