Dictionary of World Biography (Record no. 61849)
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Jones, Barry, |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Dictionary of World Biography |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | ANU Press |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (976 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. 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 become a Fellow of four of Australia’s five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘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. |
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| Uncontrolled term | Biography |
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| Uncontrolled term | Dictionary |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25103/1/dictionary.pdfhttps://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/anu-lives-series-biography/dictionary-world-biographyhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25103">https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25103/1/dictionary.pdfhttps://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/anu-lives-series-biography/dictionary-world-biographyhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25103</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | E-Book |
| Withdrawn status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Directory of Open Access Books | Directory of Open Access Books | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | E-Book |