Overwhelmed by “Dog Responses”
3 April 2020 • Ron Manners
Over the festive season, I sent out my latest poem Why I Talk to Kelpie Dogs to all my friends, family and associates. I received …
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Coronavirus Era – 8 Rules
25 March 2020 • Ron Manners
Don’t get sick. You don’t want to be a burden on others, as they are already burdened by the fall-out from the current …
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Australian Bushfires Part III
7 February 2020 • Ron Manners
Having just spent two weeks talking to people directly involved in Australia’s serious bushfires (Victoria and New South Wales), I see an obvious …
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Hollywood Hedonism v British Tradition
15 January 2020 • Ron Manners
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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