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Australia’s Education Crisis Part II – Wesley College Goes Woke!

14 September 2023  •  Ron Manners AO

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 …

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Values and Virtues

20 April 2023  •  Ron Manners AO

Peter Kurti from the Centre for Independent Studies (Sydney) introduced us to the difference between "Values and Virtues" at Mannkal events in Perth …

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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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Leadership Can Not be Delegated!

13 May 2022  •  Ron Manners AO

This article was originally published in The Spectator Australia. Anyone else old enough to remember when any corporate, political or education leader, said …

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Reflecting on an inspirational tour of Francisco Marroquín University (UFM)

9 February 2022  •  Mannwest Admin

The below is a guest post by Yuliya Tychkivska, Executive Director of The Aspen Institute - Ukraine, Co-Founder of the Bendukidze Free Market …

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Steven Horwitz – RIP

2 July 2021  •  Ron Manners AO

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 …

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Cafe Hayek

22 June 2021  •  Ron Manners AO

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

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Australia’s outback highway revisited in 2020

8 February 2021  •  Ron Manners AO

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

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“Bunking” your own philosophy

20 December 2020  •  Ron Manners AO

On Monday the 12th of October I had the pleasure of addressing students of Perth Modern School on the subject of entrepreneurship. Let …

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