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John Hyde was educated at Dalwallinu State School and Hale School, Western Australia. He held the Moore seat in the Federal Parliament for the Liberals from 1974 until defeated in 1983. He was one of three MPs who formed 'the Dries'. He is presently Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs which is dedicated to encouraging understanding of the free society and free enterprise. He writes a weekly column in The Australian.

Greg Craven is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne. He holds a Master of Laws Degree from that University. He has published widely in the fields of constitutional and administrative law, and has a particular interest in Australian federal relations. From 1985-1987 he served as director of research to the Victorian Parliament's Legal and Constitutional Committee.

David Russell, QC became a solicitor (1974) and barrister (1977) of the Supreme Court of Queensland after completing his LL.M at the University of Queensland. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1986. Since 1984 he has been a central councillor and member of the State Management Committee of the National Party of Australia in Queensland.

Phillip Gude was appointed (1990) Shadow Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs and Shadow Minister for Youth Affairs. From 1989-1990 he was Chairman of the Liberal Party Casino Committee and has served on various committees since 1979.

Peter Costello, MP is Shadow Minister for Corporate Law Reform and Consumer Affairs. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the seat of Higgins, Victoria, in March 1990. He joined the Liberal Party in 1980. Before entering Parliament he was a solicitor, 1981-1984, a member of the Victorian Bar 1984-90 and a part time tutor Law and Economics/Politics Faculty, Monash University 1984-1986. As a barrister he practised in the fields of commercial, taxation, industrial relations and anti-discrimination law. He holds B.A. and LLB (Hons) degrees.

Terry Tobin, QC holds LLB, BA (Hons) University of Melbourne. He was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1973, New York bar 1982, was appointed Queen's Counsel for NSW in 1985 and the bar of Ireland 1991. He is author (with M G Sexton) of Australian Defamation Law and Practice and editor of the Daily Commercial News 1972.

Ash Forward served with the British South African Police in Zimbabwe; had nine years with 20th Century Fox Organisation in the field of advertising and promotion. He spent several years in South Africa in various roles before moving to Western Australia where he was Personnel Superintendent with the Johns & Waygood Group. He joined Queensland Nickel Pty Ltd as Manager-Industrial Relations and Personnel Division in 1979.

John Stone won a scholarship and attended Perth Modern School. Subsequently attended University of Western Australia, where in 1950 he obtained First Class Honours (Mathematical Physics) to his Bachelor of Science degree. He was a Rhodes Scholar in 1951. At Oxford University he was awarded the James Webb Medley Scholarship for Economics in 1953, obtained First Class Honours in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 1954. After several appointments overseas including the IMF in Washington, he returned to the Treasury in Canberra and in 1976 was Deputy Secretary. He became Secretary to the Treasury in January 1979. In September 1984 he resigned from the Commonwealth Public Service and is presently Senior Fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs. In 1987 he was elected to the Senate on the National Party Senate ticket for Queensland. He became Inaugural President of The H R Nicholls Society 1986-1989. He is an inaugural Board Member of The Samuel Griffith Society.

Rod Kemp was educated at Scotch College, University of Melbourne where he obtained his Bachelor of Commerce. He was elected Senator for Victoria in 1990 and prior to this he was Director of the Institute of Public Affairs Melbourne where he built that organisation into Australia's leading private sector think-tank.

Roger Kerr in 1966 gained First Class Honours MA Canterbury, New Zealand. He is Executive Director of New Zealand Business Roundtable, Director of Electricity Corporation of New Zealand and Assistant Secretary in the New Zealand Treasury 1967-76, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1967-74 First Secretary New Zealand and a Mission to E.E.C., Brussels.

Michael Porter was educated in Adelaide where he gained B.Ec.(Honours 1st Class) in 1965; MA. and Ph.D. Standford. He headed the Centre for Policy Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, for several years and is currently Executive Director of Tasman Institute. He has published widely.

Dr Graham Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne, specialising in labour law. He is also Director of Studies of the Graduate Diploma in Labour Relations Law offered by the University. Dr Smith is Senior Member of the Work Care Appeals Board, a member of the Universities Academic Staff Conciliation and Arbitration Board, a member of the Editorial Committee of the Australian Journal of Labour Law and a member of the Academic Committee of the Laws of Australia. Dr Smith worked as a solicitor in the industrial relations law practice of Holding Redlich in Melbourne, and as a lawyer in the Commonwealth Industrial Relations Bureau.

Ray Evans was educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne. He graduated in Electrical Engineering (1960), Mechanical Engineering (1961) and later M.Eng.,Sc. (1975). He worked in the State Electricity Commission of Victoria as a graduate engineer 1961-1968 and then joined the Gordon Institute of Technology as Lecturer in Electrical Engineering. He joined, (in 1976) Deakin University as Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and became Deputy Dean in 1980. He resigned in 1982 to join Western Mining as Executive Officer.