Crossroads

"Crossroads was an initiative of Liberal Dry MPs John Hyde and Jim Carlton, and was a clandestine group that brought together about 40 radical neo-liberal activists with the specific aim of sharing and planning ways of furthering the radical neo-liberal agenda. The name was derived from the then recently published movement manifesto Australia at the Crossroads written by movement activists Wolfgang Kasper, Richard Blandy, John Freebairn, Douglas Hocking and Robert O'Neil. Should the existence of the group have been publicly discovered, it was planned to explain it away as a talk-shop devoted to discussing the implications of Kasper et al's book. From its inception in early 1981 until 1986, the Crossroads Group met twice yearly." (Cahill, 2004: 116-117)

Cahill notes that "Crossroads should be regarded as an important development in the history of the radical neo-liberal movement." (Cahill, 2004: 117)

According to Cahill (2004: 210-211) the following capitalists were members of Crossroads:
 * Phillip Scanlan
 * Andrew Hay
 * Hugh Morgan
 * Neville Kennard
 * Maurice Newman
 * John Elliott
 * Mark Johnson
 * Don Swan
 * Ross Graham-Taylor
 * Andrew Kaldor
 * John Brummer
 * Don Stammer
 * John McLeod