Ron Manners’ ideas 
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Articles: Politics

The Voice! How P.M. Albo really won!

(He didn’t really care if you voted Yes! or No!) Never under-estimate a Trotskyite from his earlier Sydney University days.  Someone who has...

Straight from the Horse’s Mouth!

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

What the Economic Rationalists (Dries) Really Believed - John Hyde Newspaper Clipping

Funeral Oration

The below verse is addressed to the Liberal Party and is written by John Hyde OAM, the former member for the Division of...

The Voice!

Wandering through the weed-filled fields of Wokeness One branch of economics, called Public Choice Theory (PCT),  is often used to identify how bad...

John Hyde awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia

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

The “Climate Debate” drives off the cliff!

It is hard to avoid the strident tones of the promoters of the various climate and “Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)” schemes. I...

Why does Senator Pauline Hanson remind me of Ukraine?

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

Bamboozled by one government stuff up after another?

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

Inherited Debt – Getting Worse!

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

Canberra – always good for a laugh

Pay attention; it’s your money In view of the completion of the recent Public Choice Theory course at Notre Dame in Fremantle, here...

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