A Thinking ReedAllen & Unwin, 2007 - 591 pagini 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 Pick-a-Box quiz champion, and from then on he has embraced a myriad of passions and causes. A Thinking Reed spans his remarkable career, from a lonely childhood in Melbourne of the 1930s and 1940s to the fight he led against the death penalty to 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 nations'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 - both 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 often witty insights into history, philosophy, music and literature. A Thinking Reed is a generous gift from an extraordinary Australian. 'A Thinking Reed is a book that works through accumulation and accretion . . . and in his requiem for contemporary politics, we reach the finale of what we now see has been a symphony, and one with Mahleresque intimations of tragedy'. - Australian Literary Review 'Barry Jones has written the best autobiography of a politician I have ever read'. - Don Aitkin, Canberra Historical Journal 'A Thinking Reed is a mixture of honesty, FUN, common sense and scholarship too. It makes a delightful portrait of a life. - Owen Chadwick, OM, historian 'It is breathtakingly ambitious, clear-eyed but generous about other people Rich and strange - like travelling with Gulliver as he discovers the world and himself in it . . . I don't often hanker for multi-volumed works, but I wished for more all the while I was reading this'. - The Age |
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Pagina 1
... have always read voraciously, travelled extensively, wrote and talked a lot, but I failed to master a musical instrument or foreign languages . However , I proved to be a survivor 1 Overture: 'An abundant life . . .'
... have always read voraciously, travelled extensively, wrote and talked a lot, but I failed to master a musical instrument or foreign languages . However , I proved to be a survivor 1 Overture: 'An abundant life . . .'
Pagina 6
... talked to Hiss, I sensed the ghosts of Holmes and Lincoln were present. My mentor W.A. Osborne had shaken hands with Oscar Wilde and Buffalo Bill. I could get back to Johann Sebastian Bach in six handshakes. In London, I talked to the ...
... talked to Hiss, I sensed the ghosts of Holmes and Lincoln were present. My mentor W.A. Osborne had shaken hands with Oscar Wilde and Buffalo Bill. I could get back to Johann Sebastian Bach in six handshakes. In London, I talked to the ...
Pagina 18
... talked about music. In those days the ABC broadcast relays of the BBC News as well. Many in the extended family kept in touch with Edie by letters or occasional visits. Elsie Curtin (née Needham), Prime Minister John Curtin's wife, born ...
... talked about music. In those days the ABC broadcast relays of the BBC News as well. Many in the extended family kept in touch with Edie by letters or occasional visits. Elsie Curtin (née Needham), Prime Minister John Curtin's wife, born ...
Pagina 21
... talked him into moving to Tawonga and he became a dairy farmer , storekeeper and postmaster there , returning to Geelong in 1936 . The only Potter sibling not to live in Geelong was Auntie Mabel Elizabeth ( 1880–1962 ) , not to be ...
... talked him into moving to Tawonga and he became a dairy farmer , storekeeper and postmaster there , returning to Geelong in 1936 . The only Potter sibling not to live in Geelong was Auntie Mabel Elizabeth ( 1880–1962 ) , not to be ...
Pagina 22
... talked about , their precious images kept as icons . Much of my lifelong preoccupation with sequencing , or dates , may have come from trying to work out family relationships at a time when I was an only child , with no access to ...
... talked about , their precious images kept as icons . Much of my lifelong preoccupation with sequencing , or dates , may have come from trying to work out family relationships at a time when I was an only child , with no access to ...
Cuprins
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3 Death Penalty | 72 |
4 Quiz Show | 103 |
5 Fifty Years Hard Labor | 130 |
6 Faces | 182 |
7 Bump Me Into Parliament | 226 |
12 Backbench Explorations | 395 |
13 Beliefs | 417 |
14 The Third Age | 443 |
1979 1989 2001 | 475 |
Afterword | 529 |
The Second Coming | 530 |
Lists | 531 |
Blbliography | 538 |
8 Life of My Mind | 259 |
9 Sleepers Wake | 310 |
10 Inside the Hawke Government | 332 |
11 Ministering to Science | 353 |
Acknowledgments | 547 |
Index | 548 |
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Pagina 131 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Pagina 76 - What's that so black agin the sun?' said Files-onParade. 'It's Danny fightin' 'ard for life,' the Colour-Sergeant said. 'What's that that whimpers over'ead?' said Files-onParade. 'It's Danny's soul that's passin' now,
Pagina 329 - I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
Pagina 527 - So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Pagina 275 - Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind...
Pagina 530 - Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Pagina 154 - God save our gracious Queen, Long live our noble Queen, God save the Queen: Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us: God save the Queen.
Pagina 317 - In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat...
Pagina 528 - I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on" (Three Novels by Samuel Beckett [New York: Grove Press, 1955], p.
Pagina 530 - Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,...
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No, Prime Minister: Reclaiming Politics from Leaders James Walter,Paul Strangio Vizualizare fragmente - 2007 |