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  title info:
    title: Dictionary of world biography
  name:
    name part: Jones, Barry O.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Dictionaries.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: aca
    date issued: 2021
    edition: Eighth edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 986 pages).
  abstract: 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. 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 become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 'living national treasures' in 1997, 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 Recog…
  note: Barry Jones.
  note: Licensed under Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 AU-CaNED
  subject:
    topic: Biography
    topic: Dictionaries
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
  subject:
    topic: Biography
  classification: CT103
  classification: 920.02
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Dictionary of world biography
    origin info:
      publisher: Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2021
  related item:
    title info:
      title: ANU.Lives series in biography
  identifier: 9781760464677
  identifier: 1760464678
  identifier: 9781760464660
  identifier: 22573/ctv20m0dcv JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv20pxz4w
  access condition: Licensed under Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). AU-CaNED
  record info:
    record content source: AUNED
    record creation date: 210920
    record change date: 20230103223542.4
    record identifier: in00004635813
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng