LEADER 03297oam 2200577 450 001 9910131513803321 005 20230621140106.0 010 $a1-925022-25-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000443415 035 $a(EBL)3543953 035 $a(OCoLC)927484604 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001669472 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16458183 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001669472 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15004060 035 $a(PQKB)10340650 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3543953 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00057179 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00120821 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29441 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000443415 100 $a20200608d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDictionary of world biography /$fBarry Jones 205 $aSecond edition. 210 $cANU Press$d2015 210 1$aCanberra, Australian Capital Territory :$cAustralian National University E Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (938 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aANU Lives Series in Biography 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1925022242 327 $aAbout 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. 330 $aJones, Barry Owen (1932- ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972-77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977-98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ?post-industrial? society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ?the Third Age? and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983-90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987-90 and Customs 1988-90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991-95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992-2000, 2005-06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860- (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. 410 0$aANU.Lives series in biography. 606 $aBiography$vDictionaries 610 $adictionary 610 $abiography 615 0$aBiography 676 $a920.02 700 $aJones$b Barry O.$0864788 801 0$bWaSeSS 801 1$bWaSeSS 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910131513803321 996 $aDictionary of world biography$91930280 997 $aUNINA