Entree for our next two events

Dear ,

We have two great speakers coming up in the next fortnight, so I thought I'd give you a taster of what you are about to feast on.

Ross Elliott

Ross is the Chair of the Better Suburbs Initiative Board of the Brisbane City Council, which sounds quite boring and establishment.

Ross is anything but.

Have a read of his latest think piece (published on our own On Line Opinion) Studying the wrong cities will lead to repeating their mistakes where he is bluntly critical of some of the world’s showcase cities like Vancouver, Portland, New York, London and Copenhagen for being unaffordable, expensive and inequitable.

Can’t wait to hear him give Brisbane the same treatment. To book, click here. This is our regular Fridays on Logan Road function. This Friday at 5:30 for 6:00 pm, in our offices at Unit 2B, 50 Logan Road, Woolloongabba.

Larry Reed

I’ve been following Larry’s articles on the Foundation for Economic Education’s website. He’s an economist with a very broad palette. You’d have guessed that as his topic when he speaks to us on Sunday March 15, will be “Was Jesus a Socialist?”.

He seems to take a particular interest in black America. His two latest essays are:

• A Hero of Black History in America: 9 Powerful Quotes from Frederick Douglass
• The Tulsa Race Massacre: A Mindless Rage of Collectivist Groupthink

The second one particularly affected me. It deals with a 1920s race riot that wiped out a whole metropolitan area of Tulsa where black Americans were running what was called the “Black Wall Street”. It was shocking that it happened in the lifetime of people I have known and spoken to, in a country we call “the Land of the Free”, and that so short a time after the end of the Civil War you had a successful black society operating torn down by mob violence on the basis of a false accusation.

Fascinating history, and told by a man who is not concerned with economics for economics' sake, but economics for humanity’s sake.

To hear Larry, book here. It will also be in the AIP Auditorium at Unit 2B, 50 Logan Road, Woolloongabba at 3:00 pm.

Look forward to seeing you at one or the other.

Regards,

Graham Young
Executive Director