This web-site is an inevitable extension of my life-long libertarian adventure.

In addition to maintaining old and creating new contacts our Mannkal Economic Education Foundation is a way of repaying some of that often "borrowed" intellectual capital.

The Mannkal Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation with an independent board.

In the true Australian spirit, we don't take Governments too seriously, but we do observe that any government's action usually achieves the opposite of their stated intent, so they need to be reminded of this.

Your own libertarian/free-market/Objectivist/Austrian economics/input is invited.

Organisations such as ours get their momentum from people and converting this momentum into effective communication is an art form.

Combining art with people should be fun and we are proceeding on the basis of having some serious fun.

Ron Manners
Chairman

We aim to strengthen the free market system in Western Australia and Australia, by promoting ideals of voluntary co-operation, choice, personal rights, limited government, and resourcefulness of individuals. The Mannkal Economic Education Foundation organizes events that allow individuals to exchange ideas defending free markets and we sponsor students for seminars and essay competitions.

Background

Western Australia was settled by pioneers with deeply entrenched beliefs in political freedom. To maintain that freedom in the new colony, our pioneers established important institutions - courts, universities, parliaments, churches a free press and other public and private organizations which they believed were necessary to preserve their way of life.

Since those early days of settlement, the freedom of average citizens to pursue their own ambitions has been dramatically curtailed - primarily through the inordinate growth of government regulation and taxation.

The collapse of the Soviet Union saw socialism as an economic doctrine completely discredited. However, its various social permutations and its central planning devotees are still in existence and are active within many of Australia’s educational institutions - including those in Western Australia.

Because national prosperity and other forms of well-being are driven and sustained only by the resourcefulness and creative energies of its citizens, it is essential for Australia's future that these traditions of freedom are rediscovered and re-established.

The Mannkal Economic Education Foundation will employ its resources to assist in the rediscovery and refurbishment of the traditions which form the basis of national prosperity and personal freedoms.