Please forward this as widely as you can. It's a pretty amazing conference, featuring Reith, Abbott, Andrew Bolt and a host of other uglies. Check out the website below. www.hrnicholls.com.au <http://www.hrnicholls.com.au/> ----------------------
Liberal Party Ex-Defence Minister Peter Reith is coming to Melbourne to collect an award for services rendered, by the HR Nicholls Society, a Liberal Party right-wing thinktank. VICTORIAN TRADES HALL COUNCIL and REFUGEE ACTION COLLECTIVE ask you to DEMONSTRATE AT THE CEREMONY 6PM FRIDAY 22 MARCH HR Nicholls Society conference The Holiday Inn, Cnr Park Street and St Kilda Road, Melbourne 5 REASONS TO PROTEST - Some crimes of Peter Reith 1. Lying to the Australian people about refugees throwing children overboard 2. Bashing the Maritime Union and construction workers 3. Attacks on workers rights - Workplace Relations Act 4. Phonecard rort 5. Profiting from government inside information Speakers include: Leigh Hubbard, Secretary, Trades Hall Council For further info: Refugee Action Collective 9659 3505 or 0402 413 914 www.rac-vic. <http://www.rac-vic.org/> org <http://www.rac-vic.org/> Bring noise-makers, banners, placards Below is the program for the HR Nicholls Society conference, a right wing think-tank. Peter Reith will be receiving the Charles Copeman 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. See the website <http://www.hrnicholls.com.au/> www.hrnicholls.com.au ------------------- 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' Jeff Sparrow Coordinator New International Book Co-operative Box 18 Trades Hall 54 Victoria St Carlton Sth 3053 tel 03 9662 3744 fax 03 9663 4755 www.nibs.org.au <http://www.nibs.org.au/> to receive regular updates about bookshop events, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
