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Straight from the Horse’s Mouth!

12 October 2023  •  John Hyde OAM

What the Economic Rationalists (Dries) Really Believed The below Guest Mannerism by John Hyde OAM was published in Amity, in September 2002" During …

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Slide-Rules, Capital and Remaining Focused

16 August 2023  •  Ron Manners AO

Avoiding socialism and wokeness! During a recent office clean-up, I came across my old slide-rule ….. What a useful item this was, in …

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Who will be remembered as Ukraine’s economic reformer?

26 April 2023  •  Mannwest Admin

Rebuilding a war-torn economy: Economic reforms and making them stick. The below is a speech delivered by Ron Manners at the Warsaw/Kyiv leg …

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Bratislava – Talking of Energy

26 April 2023  •  Mannwest Admin

The below is a speech delivered by Ron Manners at the Bratislava leg of the Free Market Roadshow 2023 Here we are in …

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Revitalising Australia: How a “7D” Tax Code Could Spark Economic Growth and Job Creation

4 April 2023  •  Mannwest Admin

The below "Guest Mannerism" is written by Mannkal's Chairman Designate Mac Nichols. In 1948 The West German Finance Minister, Ludwig Erhard instituted "7D" …

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John Hyde awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia

26 January 2023  •  Mannwest Admin

Former politician, farmer, author, and recently retired director of the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation John Hyde has been awarded the Order of Australia …

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Why does Senator Pauline Hanson remind me of Ukraine?

9 September 2022  •  Ron Manners AO

Those of us, fortunate enough, to have heard Pauline Hanson’s ‘Cost of Living’ speech in the Senate on Sept 7th, 2022 may have …

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Bamboozled by one government stuff up after another?

15 August 2022  •  Ron Manners AO

(Easy to understand if you study one branch of economics) Is this a harsh headline? Why the focus on government failure? How do …

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Geoffrey Brennan, RIP

3 August 2022  •  Ron Manners AO

Sadly Australian economics and political philosopher Geoffrey Brennan has suddenly passed away from complications of acute leukemia. I was in Canberra recently, but …

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Inherited Debt – Getting Worse!

11 July 2022  •  Ron Manners AO

In 2012 I wrote a poem (below) expressing concern at the level of debt inherited by every newborn Australian. It was then $80,796 …

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