Australian Bushfires Part III
7 February 2020 • Ron Manners AO
Having just spent two weeks talking to people directly involved in Australia’s serious bushfires (Victoria and New South Wales), I see an obvious …
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Who Benefits While You Pay?
6 August 2019 • Ron Manners AO
When any orthodox economist from the Democratic Land of Oz talks of policies designed in the ‘public interest’ or the ‘national interest’, I …
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Public Choice Theory explains how Western values are being eroded
6 June 2019 • Ron Manners AO
Being an optimist, I am enjoying the many signs of “sprouting concern” about the destructive influence of the “long march” through our institutions …
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Australian Native Title Act…this may surprise you!
18 July 2017 • Ron Manners AO
To anyone who assumed that the Native Title Act was designed to ‘assist our Aboriginals’, think again. Like most legislation there was much going …
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Superannuation: for better or worse?
5 January 2017 • Ron Manners AO
Superannuation is less than super We have come to the end of another annual round of changes to our super fund which, in …
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Character Beats Strategy (Every Time): a festive poem
13 December 2016 • Ron Manners AO
Merry Christmas to all! Ron wrote this festive poem as a way of expressing just how he feels about politics at this special time of …
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Property rights in WA: an endangered species
8 November 2016 • Ron Manners AO
This speech was delivered at a Property Rights Conference, held at Murdoch University. Addressing a group of the legal fraternity, I implored them to do the …
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An offer you can refuse! Say no to the Mafia-style remedy in the Uber vs taxi dispute
3 October 2016 • Ron Manners AO
Let’s look at the latest attempt to ‘milk the public’ in the emerging open competition between ride sharing businesses such as Uber and …
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Role model reversal? Under developed versus developed countries
4 September 2016 • Ron Manners AO
The real generation gap in Australia Matthew Lynn of The Daily Telegraph recently set out to investigate why the title of developing country no longer exists. The …
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Why isn’t philanthropy encouraged in Australia?
22 August 2013 • Ron Manners AO
Our Mannkal Economic Education Foundation was one of the first PPF/PAFs (Private Ancillary Funds) in WA, formed in 2002, and over the years …
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