Ron Manners’ ideas 
and adventures

Ron Manners AO

Poseidon Reunion Dinner

The following Poseidon feature is from my book Heroic Misadventures. The full book is available as a free e-book here. Pages 288-304 cover...

The Global Financial Crisis

Harvard University, currently in the news because of their (now former) ultra-woke president, played a role in the Global Financial Crisis of 2008....

Joining the ‘world of ideas’ can lead to unlimited opportunities

Ron’s welcoming comments, on 23/11/23, to the successful Mannkal Scholars for 2024. I have been allocated, just three minutes, to welcome you as...

The Voice! How P.M. Albo really won!

(He didn’t really care if you voted Yes! or No!) Never under-estimate a Trotskyite from his earlier Sydney University days.  Someone who has...

Australia’s Education Crisis Part II – Wesley College Goes Woke!

Since publishing our recent Education Crisis in Australia paper (here) we have received extensive support for our concern. From time-to-time I will share...

Woke

Slide-Rules, Capital and Remaining Focused

Avoiding socialism and wokeness! During a recent office clean-up, I came across my old slide-rule ….. What a useful item this was, in...

Eulogy for Dinny Grimwood’s Funeral Service

Jenny and I are honoured to be family friends of the Grimwoods as this relationship has several deep and interconnected threads. My own...

Values and Virtues

Peter Kurti from the Centre for Independent Studies (Sydney) introduced us to the difference between “Values and Virtues” at Mannkal events in Perth...

The Voice!

Wandering through the weed-filled fields of Wokeness One branch of economics, called Public Choice Theory (PCT),  is often used to identify how bad...

Who Painted Australia’s Sky so Blue?

Special Australia Day poem – January 26, 2023 For this special Australia Day (before it gets banned), let’s lift ourselves beyond the current...