Below is the program for the forthcoming HR Nicholls Society conference.
Peter Reith will be receiving a medal from John 'Flat Tax' Stone. Brian
Welch from the Master Builders Association is speaking on the Royal
Commission witch hunt into the building industry. Andrew Bolt --
propagandist in chief from the Herald Sun -- is holding forth on
(of all things) outworkers.
DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THE REAL AXIS OF EVIL!
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The Changing Paradigm:
Freedom, Jobs, Prosperity
Friday 22 March & Saturday 23 March 2002
The Holiday Inn,
Cnr Park Street and St Kilda Road,
Melbourne
Tel: (03) 9209 9888
Fax: (03) 9690 1603
Programme
Friday, 22 March
7.00 pm for Dinner 7.30 pm
Guest of Honour and recipient of the Charles Copeman Medal for 2002:
The Hon. Peter Reith
Mr John Stone, former Secretary to the Treasury, and founding President
of the H R Nicholls Society, will make the presentation.
Saturday, 23 March
9.00 am
Session A
Chairman: Bob Day
I. 'Breathing Life into the New Paradigm'
Ray Evans
II. 'Reflections on the Cole Royal Commission'
Brian Welch
Exec. Director of the MBA (Vic)
Discussant: Stuart Wood
'After the Commission'
10.30 am Morning Tea
11.00 am
Session B
Chairman: Steve Knott
I. 'Minimum Wages and Other Barriers to Employment: or why Card and
Krueger were wrong'
Des Moore and Geoff Hogbin
II. 'The O'Connor Abattoirs Story' (to be confirmed)
Kevin O'Connor
12.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm
Session C
Chairman: Stuart Wood
I. 'Labour Market Reform post-10 Nov 2001'
The Hon. Tony Abbott
II. 'The Victorian Industrial Manslaughter Bill'
Ken Phillips
3.20 pm Afternoon Tea
3.40 pm
Session D
Chairman: John Paterson
I. 'What can be done when the Police decline to enforce the law' (to be
confirmed)
Frank Parry
II. 'Trade Unions and Civil Society'
The Hon. Gary Johns
5.10 pm
Session E
Chairman: Des Moore
'Facing the next Victorian election'
Bill Forwood, MLC
6.30 pm for Dinner 7.00 pm
Guest of Honour: Andrew Bolt
'Reflections on the Outworkers'
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