1. Neville Kennard Obituary, by Benjamin Marks (with many comments by others).
  2. More Bert Kelly brilliance uncovered this week for the first time in over 30 years: on political speech writers | on how the enemies of the free-market just want the quiet life | on how government fails spectacularly (this is the only non-Modest Farmer column in The Bulletin by Bert Kelly I have found) | on structural change | and on what the future will be like when Bert Kelly is thawed and resurrected (he thinks Nev had the right idea)! There are now 126 items featuring Bert Kelly archived at our site BertKelly.info.
  3. Bob Howard on “The Discipline of Necessity” — one of Howard’s few post-Workers Party essays, and a beauty. There are now 112 items featuring John Singleton, Howard and the Workers Party archived at our site WorkersParty.info.
  4. Lang Hancock is an important figure we should all learn more about. Here is what we’ve uncovered this week: 1982 NYT profile | 1978 Hancock speech to the International Press Institute General Assembly | a positive review of a speech Hancock gave at that event, but it refers to either a different speech or a speech improvised from the previous item | and more important Hancock history on Rio Tinto, Hamersley and Tom Price, and News in the West. There are now 53 items featuring Lang Hancock archived at our site LangHancock.info. Also, please check out another of our sites, GinaRinehart.info, which has received nearly 700 Facebook likes, over 100 comments and some media attention, thanks to your support.
  5. Viv Forbes, one of the last living and active Australian legends (and he is still outdoing us all), with three new classics: Carbon Tax Retrospective? | Solving Three Canberra Problems | Vested Interests in the Climate Debate | also, Lang Hancock’s 1981 Quadrant essay that we posted last week, “We Mine to Live,” was largely written by Forbes who gave Hancock permission to use it without attribution (so as not to offend his employer at the time) and who is also the anonymous friend Hancock quotes. There are now 60 items featuring Viv Forbes archived at our site VivForbes.info.
  6. Lennie Lower explains why egg-timers should replace proverb-filled calendars.
  7. Chad Morgan “On The Social Service” — a classic Australian libertarian song.
  8. Benjamin Marks: “The exciting new Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance” | and an update to the end of “The Best Australian Think Tank Is …”.