Some things, like government making fickle decisions, never seem to change. In this 1993 column in bi-monthly publication, Australian Drilling, Ron shared some...
This speech was delivered at the 1993 conference of the Pastoralists’ and Graziers’ Association of WA. It was George Washington who said: “Government...
Timeline of events leading to the creation of the Museum of the Goldfields in Kalgoorlie 1965: Establishment of a Golden Mile Museum suggested...
I made this speech at the Geotechnical/Geomechanical Australian Conference in 1993 and it can also be found in my book Never a Dull...
This article was printed in the Australian Journal of Mining in October 1992. Editor Peter Barrett prefaced it by writing the following: “Taken...
Have you heard the story about Ron Manners and Herbert Hoover? The two men share a connection through not just a workspace but...
We can be heroes Can anyone remember a time when miners were heroes? When they were proud of what they did, without apologizing?...
Written while I was an AMEC councillor and Australia was experiencing “the recession we had to have“, this article offers four suggestions on...
One of my hobbies is collecting examples of how government policies, usually achieve the opposite, to their possibly good intentions. The training tax...
What is history? And why is there an interest in it long after the people involved have moved on? I pondered these questions,...
