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Articles: Culture

Why Not Start Your Own Think Tank?

Presentation to The Centre for Free Economic Thought Tallinn, Estonia April 28th, 2026 By Ron Manners AO Founder of Mannkal Economic Education Foundation...

The Philosophy of Entrepreneurship

Delivered by Ron Manners AO during the Free Market Road Show at the Estonian Business School (Tallinn) on April 29th, 2026. I’ve been...

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...

Funeral Oration

The below verse is addressed to the Liberal Party and is written by John Hyde OAM, the former member for the Division of...

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...

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s New Year Greetings

The below words were posted by Elena Gold and originally published here. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s 17-minute New Year speech brought tears to my...

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