One of the country’s great thinkers, Dr Barry Jones, AO, will look at the role of the public intellectual in Australia when he visits Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Wagga Wagga Campus on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 December.  The writer, broadcaster and former politician will address a dinner of senior CSU staff from 6.30pm on Monday in a speech entitled, What is the role of the public intellectual in Australia? Dr Jones will travel to CSU’s Albury-Wodonga Campus on Tuesday 4 December to present the keynote address at the CSU Community Engagement Forum. Dr Jones served in Federal Parliament from 1977 to 1998 and was Australia’s longest serving Science Minister from 1983 to 1990. He was the ALP National President from 1992 to 2000 and again in 2005. Dr Jones is the only person to be elected as a Fellow to all four Australian Academies. He has written three books; Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work (1982), Dictionary of World Biography (1994) and his 2006 autobiography, A Thinking Reed.