Speaker
Prof Barry Jones
Professorial Fellow
University of Melbourne
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Barry is a politician, writer, teacher, quasi-diplomat, lawyer, heritage administrator and public intellectual. He is also the only person elected Fellow of all four Australian learned academies. A former state MP, then federal MP for Lalor, Barry was Australia’s longest serving science minister.