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Articles: Culture

My ‘end of year’ message in two parts

1. A note of sadness2. Hope for the future Linda Whetstone RIP I have just been advised of the sudden passing of one...

Daylight saving – clock changing?

About this time, every year, half the world’s population performs a mystical ritual of moving their clocks by one hour. Anyone I ask,...

Steven Horwitz – RIP

It’s with much sadness that we learned the news this week that Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise and “bleeding-heart libertarian” Steven Horwitz passed...

Cafe Hayek

An opportunity to subscribe Do we all receive far too many emails?   Probably yes, and it is with some great skill that we...

Challenging our Shibboleths

A review of Mannerisms: 1985-2020 Former Liberal Leader of the Opposition, Bill Hassell AM, was kind enough to review my latest book Mannerisms:...

Let us seek understanding; never conformity!

When we feel uneasy about many of today’s questionable policies, it is often a challenge to know what questions we should be asking....

What is Politics?

A Russian Jew was finally allowed to emigrate to Israel. At the Moscow airport, customs found a Lenin statue in his baggage and...

Australia’s outback highway revisited in 2020

A story by former Mannkal Scholar Michael Cooke Ron, I have read your travel diary from the year 2000 as you travelled across...

I Always Wanted to Be… (a birthday poem)

If we had a say,and could be our favourite age,what would be our choice? Not really too old,nor really too young,A number that...

A little rebellion now and then is a very good thing!

The 164th Anniversary of Australia’s Eureka Stockade Rebellion My address below to the Rotary Club of Perth on the 4th December, 2020 can...