Trade Union Reform

Contributors

N R Evans was educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne where he graduated in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Sometime president of the MU A.L.P. Club and delegate from the federated Fodder and Fuel Trades Union to Victorian A.L.P. State Conferences, he resigned from the A.L.P. in 1966 to assist Captain S J Benson MHR retain the Federal seat of Batman as an independent. Prior to his appointment as Executive Officer at Western Mining Corporation, he was Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering at Deakin University.

David Kemp is currently Professor of Politics and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Politics at Monash University. He graduated in Arts and Law at the University of Melbourne, and obtained his Ph.D at Yale. He is author of 'Society and Electoral Behaviour in Australia' and 'Politics and Authority: Australia' (forthcoming). In 1981 he was Director of the Private Office of the Prime Minister.

Barrie Purvis is currently Director, Australian Wool Selling Brokers Employers' Federation and has spent 30 years in the field of personnel management and industrial relations. Between 1958 and 1963 he was industrial advocate for the Victorian Employers' Federation. He is a founding member of the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria.

David Russell, Q.C., 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 l 986. Since 1984 he has been a central councillor and a member of the State Management Committee of the National Party of Australia in Queensland.

Vern Routley, is a former trade union official and financial trade union member 1948-50 and 1952-86 who retired recently after 35 years in the Federal Labour Department. His association with industrial relations in Australia goes back to 1945. He obtained a M.Comm. degree from the University of Melbourne and has published several books since 1968, the latest of which 'Instead of Trade Unions' appeared in February this year.