Dictionary of World Biography: Second edition
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 t...
Saved in:
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
Published: |
ANU Press
2015
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
MARC
LEADER | 00000naaaa2200000uu 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | oapen_2024_20_500_12657_33135 | ||
005 | 20150713 | ||
003 | oapen | ||
006 | m o d | ||
007 | cr|mn|---annan | ||
008 | 20150713s2015 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d | ||
020 | |a OAPEN_569110 | ||
020 | |a 9781925022247 | ||
040 | |a oapen |c oapen | ||
024 | 7 | |a 10.26530/OAPEN_569110 |c doi | |
041 | 0 | |a eng | |
042 | |a dc | ||
072 | 7 | |a GBCB |2 bicssc | |
100 | 1 | |a Jones, Barry |4 auth | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Dictionary of World Biography: Second edition |
260 | |b ANU Press |c 2015 | ||
336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
506 | 0 | |a Open Access |2 star |f Unrestricted online access | |
520 | |a 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. | ||
540 | |a All rights reserved |4 http://oapen.org/content/about-rights | ||
546 | |a English | ||
650 | 7 | |a Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who) |2 bicssc | |
653 | |a dictionary | ||
653 | |a biography | ||
856 | 4 | 0 | |a www.oapen.org |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/29d032c0-ec53-4722-a557-75dc78ee1973/569110.pdf |7 0 |z OAPEN Library: download the publication |
856 | 4 | 0 | |a www.oapen.org |u http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33135 |7 0 |z OAPEN Library: description of the publication |