03297oam 2200577 450 991013151380332120230621140106.01-925022-25-0(CKB)3710000000443415(EBL)3543953(OCoLC)927484604(SSID)ssj0001669472(PQKBManifestationID)16458183(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001669472(PQKBWorkID)15004060(PQKB)10340650(MiAaPQ)EBC3543953(WaSeSS)IndRDA00057179(WaSeSS)IndRDA00120821(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29441(EXLCZ)99371000000044341520200608d2015 uy 0engurmn#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDictionary of world biography /Barry JonesSecond edition.ANU Press2015Canberra, Australian Capital Territory :Australian National University E Press,2015.1 online resource (938 pages) digital, PDF file(s)ANU Lives Series in BiographyDescription based upon print version of record.1925022242 About the author --Abbreviations --Introduction --A --B --C --D --E --F --G --H --I --J --K --L --M --N --O --P --Q --R --S --T --U --V --W --X --Y --Z.Jones, Barry Owen (1932- ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972-77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977-98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983-90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987-90 and Customs 1988-90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991-95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992-2000, 2005-06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860- (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995.ANU.Lives series in biography.BiographyDictionariesdictionarybiographyBiography920.02Jones Barry O.864788WaSeSSWaSeSSUkMaJRUBOOK9910131513803321Dictionary of world biography1930280UNINA