Do you want a ‘strong’ dollar or a ‘weak’ dollar?
27 February 2018 • Ron Manners AO
Which is best? Each day we read of special interest groups demanding government policies that will deliver either a ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ dollar. They …
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Bettina Bien-Greaves: Emerging from Mises’ shadow
30 January 2018 • Ron Manners AO
[caption id="attachment_3515" align="alignright" width="300"] Concluding a long dinner discussion in the home of Bettina and Percy, 1982[/caption] Retiring and then passing away at …
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School of the Air debacle
9 January 2018 • Ron Manners AO
Forget ‘votes’ and concentrate on ‘nation building’ So the WA State Government is axing the School of the Air education for remote (productive) communities. Obviously …
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Why attend Mannkal’s Western Civilisation Conference?
26 October 2017 • Ron Manners AO
A good question and you have a right to ask. Any observer, of Australia’s current pre-occupation with trivia and its avoidance of the …
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Property rights: Central to good government
29 August 2017 • Ron Manners AO
One of the few legitimate roles of any good government is to establish and protect the property rights of its citizens. When governments do …
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Jerry Lewis and the corruption of charity
22 August 2017 • Ron Manners AO
What's the different between a lobbyist and a philanthropist? Funny man Jerry Lewis died in Las Vegas earlier this week, aged 91. The …
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Taxation trauma
4 August 2017 • Ron Manners AO
At this time of the year many small and large businesses assemble their financial year results and set out plans for the coming …
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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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Three things would solve Western Australia’s GST problem
29 June 2017 • Ron Manners AO
That’s all it takes: three things! Leadership Courage Decisiveness I'm not surprised to read, yet again, that Canberra and the other states recommend …
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How I found freedom in an unfree world
29 May 2017 • Ron Manners AO
One major problem confronting the world is that almost everyone now relies on the government to 'take care of things'. After 70 years of …
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