Ron Manners’ ideas 
and adventures

Ron Manners AO

Buckets of money at Nugan Hand

This is an excerpt from my book, Heroic Misadventures. Read the full story here by downloading the free ebook. My brief career in...

Nugan Hand Mannwest

Remembering Lang Hancock

Lang Hancock will always be a legend and an icon of Australia. In 1963, he saved my life. I doubt he even realised....

Lang Hancock Mannwest

Forty years of farming

My father, Chas Manners, was trained for farming at the Ballarat Agricultural College with a long-term view to run the Manners’ family farm...

Esperance farm Mannwest

Let Public Choice Theory solve political puzzles

The good news is that an accredited Public Choice Theory course will be available from The University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle...

Political puzzle Mannwest

Australia: Four Decades – Full Circle

There’s a good reason why my book Heroic Misadventures is subtitled ‘Australia: Four Decades – Full Circle’. In the 1970s we saw Australia’s...

What would Thomas Jefferson say?

Today’s guest writer, and birthday boy, is Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826). Jefferson was the third President of the US and principal author...

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Mannwest

Good government needs good policies: Why not try Enterprise Zones?

In the dying days of the Malcolm Fraser Government, MP Malcolm called his team together and asked for ideas that might win them...

Australian currency Mannwest

Canberra is 200 square kilometres, surrounded by reality!

In 2011, Canberra was named as the growth driver for Australia’s economy, even outpacing Western Australia at the time. Home building, new mortgages...

Canberra parliament house Mannwest

Aussie rules and economics

Once at an economics conference I got into a lively discussion. We compared last century to an AFL game. Split into four quarters,...

AFL Mannwest

Do you want a ‘strong’ dollar or a ‘weak’ dollar?

Which is best? Each day we read of special interest groups demanding government policies that will deliver either a ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ dollar....

Do you want a weak dollar or a strong dollar Mannwest