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Dictionary of World Biography : Fifth edition

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: ANU. Lives series in biographyPublisher: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : ANU Press, 2018Description: 1 Online-Ressource (952 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781760462185
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Dictionary of world biography. Druck-Ausgabe Fifth edition. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2018DDC classification:
  • 920.02 22
LOC classification:
  • CT103
Online resources: 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 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 2016PPN: PPN: 1778548725Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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