Why you should download this free ebook!
4 September 2020 • Ron Manners
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 …
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Get up off your knees!
30 July 2020 • Ron Manners
Enough of these ceremonial apologies, please! Is it time that we learned to think for ourselves instead of reacting to peer group pressure? …
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Alcoa ‘on the nose’ again!
8 July 2020 • Ron Manners
Alcoa is at it again! Ahead of seeking approval from the state government for a range of environmental approvals around its mines and …
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Defending Competitive Capitalism
24 June 2020 • Ron Manners
Recently I have been asked by two of our Mannkal Alumni almost identical questions covering the same difficulty of defending ‘free market capitalism’ …
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Covid-19: How one eatery was done like a dinner by the bureaucrats
23 June 2020 • Ron Manners
The West Australian, 2nd June 2020 As more and more well-informed opinions appear, it is becoming clear that much of the coronavirus lockdown was unnecessary. …
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Open letter to family, friends and supporters
8 June 2020 • Ron Manners
Dear family, friends and supporters, It is with great pleasure that I humbly share with you the news that I have been included …
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Get the economy moving again; you have to be joking!
5 June 2020 • Ron Manners
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 …
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Remembering Karl Hess
13 May 2020 • Ron Manners
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 …
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Awakening Possibilities!
17 April 2020 • Ron Manners
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 …
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I miss Jon Utley
10 April 2020 • Ron Manners
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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