LEADER 03454nam 22004573a 450 001 9910917274303321 005 20250203235450.0 010 $a9781760461263 010 $a1760461261 024 8 $a10.22459/DWB.05.2017 035 $a(CKB)36716819100041 035 $a(ScCtBLL)8ed36955-cf31-440c-b1d6-5bee2f4f9d30 035 $a(OCoLC)1004386901 035 $a(oapen)doab37411 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936716819100041 100 $a20250203i20172020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aDictionary of World Biography: Fourth Edition$fBarry Jones 210 $cANU Press$d2017 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cANU Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 225 1 $a8f667d55-46bf-4696-8daa-6edaba72f544 311 08$a9781760461256 311 08$a1760461253 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. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have been elected to all four Australian learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 'living national treasures' in 1998, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services 'as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. 606 $aBiography & Autobiography / Reference$2bisacsh 608 $aBiographies.$2lcgft 610 $abiography 610 $adictionary 615 7$aBiography & Autobiography / Reference 700 $aJones$b Barry$0265690 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910917274303321 996 $aDictionary of World Biography: Fourth edition$94304574 997 $aUNINA