Ray Evans (Australian businessman)

Ray Evans (Australian businessman)

Ray Evans is an Australian business leader and intellectual.

Early years

Evans was educated at the Melbourne High School before he attended University of Melbourne and graduated in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering [http://www.hrnicholls.com.au/nicholls/nichvol5/vol5prof.htm] . During his years at university, he served as President of the Melbourne University ALP Club and as a delegate from the Federated Fodder and Fuel Trades Union to Victorian ALP State Conferences, among others [http://www.hrnicholls.com.au/nicholls/nichvol5/vol5prof.htm] .

Business interests

Evans taught electrical engineering at Deakin University, Victoria. From 1982 until 2001, Ray Evans was Executive Officer at Western Mining Corporation, (WMC Ltd) a major Australian mining company, (under Hugh Morgan). Since July 2001, Ray Evans has been the Director of Ray Evans & Associates, a consultancy specialising in political and economic advice.cite web
title=On Line Opinion's Editorial Advisory Board
publisher=On Line Opinion
url=http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/display.asp?page=eab
accessdate=2008-02-04]

Political activism

In January 1986 Evans, along with Peter Costello and two others, founded the H R Nicholls Society, a think tank of the New Right of which he is still President. The Society has had considerable influence over Liberal Party policies. The initial motivation for founding the Society was industrial relations - opposition to the setting of the minimum wage by Justice Henry Bourne Higgins and commitment to "freedom in the labour market" [citation | last=Bachelard | first=Michael | title=Right-wing warriors who changed the workplace | newspaper=The Age (Melbourne) | date=Dec 15 2007] .

Evans is also the secretary of the Lavoisier Group, a group opposed to the ratification of the Kyoto treaty and believing that the science associated with global warming is uncertain. [cite web
title= About Lavoisier
publisher=The Lavoisier Group
url=http://www.lavoisier.com.au
accessdate=2008-02-04 ] . A supporter of the Greenhouse Mafia, Evans remains a committed campaigner against climate change initiatives, dubbing global warming "the mother of environmental scares" [cite journal | last=Evans | first=Ray | title = The politics behind Kyoto | journal = Australia & World Affairs | number = 37 | date = Winter 1998] . In collaboration with Hugh Morgan, Evans worked against the Kyoto Protocol, and has been central to the campaign to prevent the former Federal Liberal Government from taking actions to cut emissions [cite book | last = Hamilton | first = Clive | title = Scorcher: the dirty politics of climate change | year = 2007 | publisher = Black Inc. Agenda | id = ISBN 9780977594900] .

Evans appeared on the ABC's discussion panel about the Great Global Warming Swindle, a documentary which questioned the science behind global warming [cite web
title=Ray Evans
publisher=On Line Opinion
url=http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/author.asp?id=528
accessdate=2008-02-04] . He has stated that environmentalism is a "religious belief," and published a new book "Nine Facts About Climate Change" in 2007 [citation | last=Murphy | first = Katherine | title=Greenhouse sceptics to congregate | newspaper=The Age (Melbourne) | page=6 | date=Feb 28 2007] .

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