TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones, Barry
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_569110
ID  - OAPEN ID: 569110
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 945782992
KW  - dictionary
KW  - biography
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/29d032c0-ec53-4722-a557-75dc78ee1973/569110.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33135
PB  - ANU Press
PY  - 2015
SN  - 9781925022247
TI  - Dictionary of World Biography: Second editionnull
ER  - 
