Ray Evans (business leader)

Ray Evans (10 September 1939 – 17 June 2014) was an Australian business leader, a conservative, and campaigner against climate change mitigation efforts.

Ray Evans was educated at Melbourne High School. He attended the University of Melbourne, from which he graduated in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. 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.

He resigned from the ALP to act as campaign manager for Sam Benson in the latter's successful campaign to retain the federal seat of Batman as an independent in 1966. In the 1960s Evans worked as a young engineer in the Production Planning Section of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria.

He taught electrical engineering at Deakin University, Victoria. From 1982 until 2001, he was Executive Officer at the major Australian mining company, Western Mining Corporation, (WMC Ltd), under Hugh Morgan. From July 2001 to June 2014, he was the Director of Ray Evans & Associates, a consultancy specialising in political and economic advice.

In January 1986, Evans, along with former federal Treasurer Peter Costello and two others, founded the H R Nicholls Society, a think tank of the New Right, of which he became president. The Society has had considerable influence over Liberal Party policies. The initial motivation for founding the Society was industrial relations - a commitment to "freedom in the labour market", and opposition to the Australian industrial relations mechanism, represented by the establishment of the minimum wage by Justice Henry Bourne Higgins in the 1905 "Harvester Judgement".

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