Ron Manners’ ideas 
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Articles: Government

The Bureaucratic Buggers

Following the successful outcome of my seven year dispute with the Australian Tax Office (1970’s), I was happy to be ‘back at work’....

Are you being “mugged”?

We have had many challenges to face in 2020. Which to tackle first? Without the traditional wisdom of a reliable business or political...

Alcoa ‘on the nose’ again!

Alcoa is at it again! Ahead of seeking approval from the state government for a range of environmental approvals around its mines and...

Covid-19: How one eatery was done like a dinner by the bureaucrats

As more and more well-informed opinions appear, it is becoming clear that much of the coronavirus lockdown was unnecessary.  We should have been isolating only...

Get the economy moving again; you have to be joking!

Conflicts between government departments (federal, state and local) are as much a threat to each Australian’s prosperity, as is the Corona-Crisis itself. I...

Coronavirus Era – 8 Rules

Don’t get sick. You don’t want to be a burden on others, as they are already burdened by the fall-out from the current...

Australian Bushfires Part III

Having just spent two weeks talking to people directly involved in Australia’s serious bushfires (Victoria and New South Wales), I see an obvious...

Bushfire Alarm!

Please read carefully as we refuse to learn from even recent history: This Mannerism from 2009 delivered a very important and topical issue....

Canberra’s Grasping Predators

On September 13, 1981 the Sunday Independent newspaper published an open letter from myself to then Federal Treasurer John Howard. My remarks were...

Bureaucracy v Public: an open letter to the Consumer Affairs Bureau 1976

In the days of Perth’s Sunday Independent, a good letter to the editor was not only published, but also served as inspiration for...

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