Ron Manners’ ideas 
and adventures

Articles: Business

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

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

Growing up on the Goldfields: Part 2

Haven’t read part 1? Catch up here. It all begins in Kalgoorlie… Here’s one of those success stories that so often begin in...

Exchange_Hotel Kalgoorlie Mannwest

Reflection, remembrance, recognition and revelry

Around this time last year I was invited to address a crowd of 400 Mining Club WA members and guests for the yearly...

Minesite 2017 Mannwest

Three things would solve Western Australia’s GST problem

That’s all it takes: three things! Leadership Courage Decisiveness I’m not surprised to read, yet again, that Canberra and the other states recommend...

GST cartoon Mannwest

Spain vs Australia 2017

These are Ron’s presentation notes and slides from the 2017 Free Market Roadshow in Gran Canaria and Madrid, where he had considerable interest...

Why not start your own country?

News of Prince Leonard of Hutt’s abdication this week reminded me of the great ‘royal visit’ of 1977, when royalty descended on Kalgoorlie....

Superannuation: for better or worse?

Superannuation is less than super We have come to the end of another annual round of changes to our super fund which, in...

Character Beats Strategy (Every Time): a festive poem

Merry Christmas to all! Ron wrote this festive poem as a way of expressing just how he feels about politics at this special...

Culture eats strategy for breakfast!

WA Mining Club holds a St Barbara’s Day Luncheon the first week of December each year, to pay tribute to the patron saint...

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