Hollywood Hedonism v British Tradition
15 January 2020 • Ron Manners AO
Birth and circumstance bring responsibility. Living up to such responsibility is challenging, but achievable; if you have that magic ingredient called ‘character’. Fortunately, …
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Bushfire Alarm!
18 December 2019 • Ron Manners AO
Please read carefully as we refuse to learn from even recent history: This Mannerism from 2009 delivered a very important and topical issue. …
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Yet another fraud exposed
11 December 2019 • Ron Manners AO
It’s one thing to write and publish a non-fiction book with a controversial point of view, but quite another for such a book …
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Canberra’s Grasping Predators
29 November 2019 • Ron Manners AO
On September 13, 1981 the Sunday Independent newspaper published an open letter from myself to then Federal Treasurer John Howard. My remarks were …
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Bureaucracy v Public: an open letter to the Consumer Affairs Bureau 1976
27 November 2019 • Ron Manners AO
In the days of Perth's Sunday Independent, a good letter to the editor was not only published, but also served as inspiration for …
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Berlin Wall: 30th anniversary after the fall
20 November 2019 • Ron Manners AO
So much has been written in this past week regarding the Fall of the Wall, what else can I possibly add? Reading so …
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Hong Kong protests
3 October 2019 • Ron Manners AO
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 …
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Why another book?
11 September 2019 • Ron Manners AO
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 …
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Who Benefits While You Pay?
6 August 2019 • Ron Manners AO
When any orthodox economist from the Democratic Land of Oz talks of policies designed in the ‘public interest’ or the ‘national interest’, I …
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Earlier governments made mistakes too
4 July 2019 • Ron Manners AO
Much attention is focused on the current catalogue of defective policy decisions by Australia’s Federal Government. July 4 marks the 21st anniversary of the …
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