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Articles: Policy

Project Western Australia

Official Launch Comments Unlike our Federal Treasurer, we will not call upon the mystic spirits of present or past rock singers, to give...

Speaking up to industry

Ron was a former AMEC Councillor, holding positions in both 1987 and from 1990-1992. In this piece he muses on industry groups and...

Canberra needs history as a compulsory subject

Isn’t it strange that no-one in Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s ‘control group’ appears to have studied history? If they had, I’m sure they...

Freedom to shop

As a consumer, buying a loaf of bread when it suited me was once my “right”, but now I can only shop with...

Perth: Australia’s gateway to Asia and Europe?

Why, you say? Well for a start, Perth (without allowing for the “clock-changing experiment”) is on the same time zone as the third of...

The Future Fund

Is the so-called “Future Fund” a fraud or just another tax on Australia’s struggling taxpayers? Today’s announcement of the A$14.5 billion contribution of...

The mining industry: A global community, from an Australian’s view

Ron delivered this speech to the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada in Toronto, Ontario in March 1997. It’s an educational experience for...

Australia Mannwest

Taxes, taxes and damned taxes

This article was printed in the Australian Journal of Mining in October 1992. Editor Peter Barrett prefaced it by writing the following: “Taken...

Let’s create real jobs this time

Written while I was an AMEC councillor and Australia was experiencing “the recession we had to have“, this article offers four suggestions on...

Mannwest Let's create real jobs