Background
Jones, Barry was born on October 11, 1932 in Geelong, Victoria Son of Claud Edward Jones and Ruth Marion (nee Black) Jones.
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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. 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 been elected to all four Australian learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s one hundred ‘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.
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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. 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 been elected to all four Australian learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s one hundred ‘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.
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Barry Owen Owen Jones
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Education
Bachelor of Laws, Melbourne University, 1965, Master of Arts, 1968. Doctor of Science, Macquarie University, 1988. Doctor of Letters U. Technology, Sydney, 1993, U. Wollongong, 1995.
High School teacher Victorian Education Department, 1957-1967.
History lecturer Louisiana Trobe University, Melbourne, 1968-1970. Partner Norris, Collins & Jones, 1970-1978.
Member State Parliament of Victoria, 1972-1977, member Australian House of Representatives, 1977, minister for science, 1983-1990, minister for technical, 1983-1984, minister for customs, 1988-1990. Member Executive Board United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, 1991-1995.
Vice president World Heritage Committee, 1995.
National president Australian Labor Party, 1992.
Career
Lecturer and lawyer; Minister for Science 1983-1990, Minister for Technology 1983-1984, Minister Assisting the Minister for Industry, Technical, and Commerce 1984-1987, Minister for Science, Customs and Small Business 1988-1990. Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Science and Technology 1989-1990. Visiting Professor Wollongong University since 1991.
Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Long Term Strategies since 1990.
Chairman Australian Film and television School 1973-1975, Australian Film Institute 1974-1980. Deputy Chairman Australian Council for the Arts 1969-1973.
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Dictionary of World Biography Volume I (ANU Lives Series in Biography)
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Dictionary of World Biography Volume II (ANU Lives Series in Biography)
(Jones, Barry Owen (1932- ). Australian politician, writer...)
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Dictionary of World Biography Volume I (ANU Lives Series in Biography)
Membership
National president Australian Labor Party, since 1992. Fellow: Royal Society Arts London. Member: Australian Academy of Sciences, Australian Academy Humanities, Australian Academy Technology and Engineering.
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Married Rosemary Hanbury Jones, June 30, 1961.
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