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dc.relation.isnodouble8f667d55-46bf-4696-8daa-6edaba72f544*
dc.contributor.authorJones, Barry
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-13 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:34:13Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:34:13Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier569110
dc.identifierOCN: 945782992en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33135
dc.description.abstractJones, 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GB Encyclopaedias and reference works::GBC Reference works::GBCB Dictionaries of biographyen_US
dc.subject.otherdictionary
dc.subject.otherbiography
dc.titleDictionary of World Biography: Second edition
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_569110
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781925022247
oapen.identifier.ocn945782992


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