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The H.R. Nicholls Society is an Australian think tank of the New Right on industrial relations.〔 - letter to editor ''HR Nicholls Society is not an ideological think-tank. It is a discussion group concerned with industrial relations reform'' 〕〔("New Right or Old Wrong? Ideology and Industrial Relations" ) article by Braham Dabscheck in ''Journal of Industrial Relations'' JIR December 1987 Vol. 29 No. 4 425-449, accessed 17 September 2010〕 It was created in March 1986 after John Stone, Peter Costello, Barrie Purvis, and Ray Evans organised a seminar aimed at discussing the Hancock Report and other industrial matters.〔(HR Nicholls: Let's Start All Over Again: The Origins and Influence of the HR Nicholls Society )〕〔(Intro: The H.R. Nicholls Society and its Work )〕 The Society is named after Henry Richard Nicholls (6 January 183013 August 1912),〔(The Peerage: Henry Richard Nicholls ). Retrieved 15 February 2014〕〔(Australian Dictionary of Biography )〕 an editor of the Hobart newspaper ''The Mercury'', who in 1911 published an editorial criticising H. B. Higgins, then a High Court judge and President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, accusing Higgins of behaving in a politically partisan and unjudicial manner after attacking a barrister.〔 This led to Nicholls being prosecuted for contempt of court by the Tasmanian Attorney-General, only to be acquitted by the full bench of the High Court.〔〔(Inside Business - 26 March 2006: IR changes bring unlikely alliances )〕 Regular contributors to the Society's publications include Ray Evans, Adam Bisits and Des Moore, the Director of the Institute for Private Enterprise. Adam Bisits is the President of the Society, replacing Evans,〔http://www.hrnicholls.com.au/work.php〕 who stepped down in 2010. ==Aims and objectives== The Society supports the deregulation of the Australian Industrial Relations System, including the abolition of the award system, the widespread use of individual employment contracts and the lowering of minimum wages. The Society only believes in limited labour market regulation, as it believes that excessive minimum wages〔(Vol 13-2: The Effects of Minimum Wage Laws on the Labour Markets - Peter Hartley )〕 and job security lead to higher unemployment and lower productivity. Since its inception, the Society has advocated what it views as reform of the labour market in order to ensure what it views as Australia's international competitiveness and prosperity. On its website, the Society lists its aims and objectives: # To promote discussion about the operation of industrial relations in Australia including the system of determining wages and other conditions of employment. # To promote the rule of law with respect to employers and employee organisations alike. # To promote reform of the current wage-fixing system. # To support the necessity for labour relations to be conducted in such a way as to promote economic development in Australia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「H. R. Nicholls Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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