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Hon Dr Barry Jones AO is an Australian writer, broadcaster and former Labour Minister.Jones was a Member of the House of Representatives for the Victorian Electorate of Lalor from 1977-98 and in the first three Hawke Governments he became Australia’s longest serving Science Minister from 1983-90.

During the years 1972-77 he was an MP for the State of Victoria and he served as National President of the Australian Labour Party from 1992-2000 and then again from 2005-06.Jones became the only Australian Minister in 1985 invited to address a Summit meeting of the ‘Group of Seven’ northern industrial powers, in Ottawa. He is the only person to have been elected as a Fellow of all four of Australian learned Academies.

Jones has written several books, one of which ‘Sleepers, Wake!’ has been translated into several languages.