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Mounting anger

10 July 2011  •  Ron Manners AO

Our feedback (via conversations, emails and Facebook) show the mounting anger from Australia’s ‘new generation’ at being left to ‘pick up the tab’ …

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Flaccid brains were on parade

10 September 2010  •  Ron Manners AO

Dr. Richard W. Rahn recently introduced the concept of Flaccid Brains with these comments: If government spending is growing faster than gross domestic product …

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Canberra needs history as a compulsory subject

2 May 2010  •  Ron Manners AO

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 …

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Another giant government stuff-up!

1 March 2010  •  Ron Manners AO

So, Australia’s federal government had to be seen to be doing something to counter the Global Financial Crisis. That’s understandable as is their …

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Freedom to shop

10 September 2009  •  Ron Manners AO

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

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Perth: Australia’s gateway to Asia and Europe?

9 May 2009  •  Ron Manners AO

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 …

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Should we all become political?

23 August 2008  •  Ron Manners AO

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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Looking for leadership

10 July 2004  •  Ron Manners AO

I’ve often bemoaned the lack of leadership in the business and mining community. The general fear of “rocking the boat” or offending the anti-business …

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From explorer to producer

20 October 1987  •  Ron Manners AO

I wrote this piece in 1987, after Croesus' first year as a publicly listed company. The first year In reviewing our first year as …

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