Ron Manners’ ideas 
and adventures

Ron Manners AO

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...

Remembering Karl Hess

One of the events that brightened up my ‘Coronavirus Besieged Easter’ was the Reason.com release of Jesse Walker’s interview with Daniel Tucker entitled...

Awakening Possibilities!

Awakening Possibilities! (Our task is simple) While I’m currently pre-occupied with writing a piece on “why our next generation should take the Coronavirus...

I miss Jon Utley

Each November, in New York City, Jon Utley and I have shared a meal.  We also invited a younger person, or two, to...

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