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Barry Jones (Australian politician)
Barry Owen Jones, (born 11 October 1932), is an Australian polymath,〔(Professor Ian Chubb, Vice-Chancellor, Australian National University, BARRY OWEN JONES : CITATION FOR AN HONORARY DEGREE ) ; Retrieved 14 September 2013〕〔(Mike Steketee, Review of A Thinking Reed, The Australian, 7 October 2006 ) ; Retrieved 14 September 2013〕〔(National Trust of Australia, National Living Treasures ) ; Retrieved 14 September 2013〕〔(University of Canberra, Monitor Online, Barry Jones From quiz champion to global prophet ); Retrieved 14 September 2013〕 writer, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion and former politician. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s, particularly against the execution of Ronald Ryan. He is on the National Trust's list of Australian Living Treasures.
==Early life==
Barry Jones was born in Geelong, Victoria and educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne, where he studied arts and law. He began his career as a schoolteacher at Dandenong High School, where he taught for nine years, before becoming a household name as an Australian quiz champion in the 1960s on Bob Dyer's ''Pick a Box'', a radio show from 1948, televised from 1957. He was known for taking issue with Dyer about certain expected answers, most famously in response to a question about "the first British Governor-General of India", where he pointed out that Warren Hastings was only technically Governor of Bengal. Jones' appearances on ''Pick a Box'' lasted from 1960 to 1968.〔(Barry Jones on ''Talking Heads'' )〕
As a forward-thinking man he famously claimed that, in the future, there would be more computers than cars in Tasmania. Nationwide, people responded with laughter and ridicule. Australians thought the claim was absurd and nonsense.〔("Let's make sure we don't look back and laugh" ) by Julia Gillard (27 October 2010)〕
Jones also tried his hand at broadcasting on Melbourne radio in the mid-1960s. He was one of the pioneers of talkback radio, working at 3DB in Melbourne.〔("Commercial radio celebrates 40 years of talkback", ''Commercial Radio Australia enewsletter'', 16 April 2007 )〕 His show ''Talkback to Barry Jones'' and Mike Walsh's show on Sydney's 2SM were Australia's first talkback shows.〔(Javes, Sue (2007) "In so many words" ), ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 23 April 2007〕 Jones believes that modern talkback shows have a much narrower focus than the original shows. He says "I was trying to convey to people a sense of what they didn't know rather than simply talk about football or pets. My emphasis was on using talkback as an instrument for exposing people to new ideas and challenging them, rather than just reinforcing the ideas they already held."〔 Jones was a panelist on 3DB's popular program, ''Information Please''.
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