Dictionary of world biography / Barry Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Barry, 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 (932 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2016

Acton, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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 Workwas 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. 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 one hundred ‘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’.

Contents:

Pages:1 to 46; Pages:47 to 92; Pages:93 to 138; Pages:139 to 184; Pages:185 to 230; Pages:231 to 276; Pages:277 to 322; Pages:323 to 368; Pages:369 to 414; Pages:415 to 460; Pages:461 to 506; Pages:507 to 552; Pages:553 to 598; Pages:599 to 644; Pages:645 to 690; Pages:691 to 736; Pages:737 to 782; Pages:783 to 828; Pages:829 to 874; Pages:875 to 920; Pages:921 to 932

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 2, 2016).

ISBN:

9781760460105

1760460109

OCLC:

949327223

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_607535

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access