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Barry Jones

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ANU Press
03 May 2019
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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 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'.
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Imprint:   ANU Press
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 250mm,  Width: 176mm, 
ISBN:   9781760462864
ISBN 10:   1760462861
Pages:   976
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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