Welcome to the HR Nicholls Society

Australia is a country in which political life is carried out through debate and argument. The Society's ambition is to bring about, through the processes of debate and argument, urgently needed reform in Australia's industrial relations attitudes, law and institutions, and thus to transform our labour market into a job-creating and wealth-generating engine of growth and prosperity.

Our aims are:

• To promote discussion about the operation of industrial relations in Australia, including the system of determining wages and other conditions of employment.
• To support the reform of Australian industrial relations with the aim of promoting the rule of law in respect of employers and employee organisations alike, the right of individuals to freely contract for the supply and engagement of their labour by mutual agreement, and the necessity for labour relations to be conducted in such a way as to promote economic development in Australia.

Recent Articles

Des Moore, The Case for Minimal Regulation of the Labour Market [240 k PDF]

Des Moore, Letter to the Editor [AFR] [HTML]

Ray Evans, The Harvester Judgment and its Consequences [HTML]

Des Moore, Workplace policy is defining issue [HTML]