عنوان

A thinking reed /

(Number (ISBN

174114387X

(Number (ISBN

1741753619

(Number (ISBN

9781741143874

(Number (ISBN

9781741753615

Number

b772823

Title Proper

A thinking reed /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Barry Jones.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Crows Nest, NSW :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Allen & Unwin,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 561 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (chiefly color) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, portraits ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Tom Keneally Centre Research Collection

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 538-546) and index.

Text of Note

1. Family -- 2. Childhood -- 3. Death penalty -- 4. Quiz show -- 5. Fifty years hard labor -- 6. Faces -- 7. 'Bump me into parliament' -- 8. Life of my mind -- 9. Sleepers, wake! -- 10. Inside the Hawke government -- 11. Ministering to science -- 12. Backbench explorations -- 13. Belifs -- 14. 'The third age' -- 15. Years of exil: 1979, 1989, 2001.

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Text of Note

"From Quiz Kid to Australian Minister for Science, from frustrated school teacher to National President of the ALP, from the suburbs of Melbourne to UNESCO in Paris, Barry Jones has had a prodigious public life. Barry Jones first came to public prominence as a Pick-a-Box quiz champion. Since then he has embraced a myrid of passions and causes. A Thinking Reed spans his remarkable life from a lonely childhood in Melbourne of the 1930s and 1940s to the fight he led against the death penalty and his crusade to make science and the future prominent issues on the political agenda. He has worked tirelessly on both a global and local scale to rethink education, to improve and preserve our heritage, to revive the nation's film industry and to build a better Australia. Almost unique among politicians, Barry Jones is held in enormous public affection. And while he reveals many insights into the political process - the problems of office and the atrophy of Opposition - he concentrates above all on the life of the mind; a mind with deep, passionate and witty insights into history, philosophy, music and literature. A Thinking Reed is a generous gift from an extraordinary Australian."--Back cover.

Text of Note

The extraordinary life of Barry Jones.

Jones, Barry O.

Jones, Barry O.

Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party.

Politicians-- Australia, Biography.

Politicians.

Australia.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Jones, Barry O.

Date of Transaction

20201203041551.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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