How to waste a whole morning
16 February 2012 • Ron Manners
The state bureaucracy works hard to rekindle my contempt for their bungling. The simple matter of a licence renewal was recently made difficult. How? …
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Should we all become political?
23 August 2008 • Ron Manners
We are often implored not to be political when we approach policy subjects that affect our lives and livelihoods. Business people particularly are …
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When spenders outnumber producers
30 July 1993 • Ron Manners
This speech was delivered at the 1993 conference of the Pastoralists' and Graziers' Association of WA. It was George Washington who said: “Government …
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Union as a serious sport
2 May 1975 • Ron Manners
How far we have surrendered our economic and individual freedoms? Unionism has changed a lot since the late 1970s but so has …
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