Dictionary of world biography / Barry Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Barry O., author.

Series:

ANU.Lives series in biography.

ANU Lives Series in Biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography--Dictionaries.

Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (938 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2015

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : Australian National University E Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

About the author

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed June 7, 2020).

ISBN:

9781925022254

1925022250

OCLC:

927484604

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_569110