question: Barry Dickins wrote a film about the last person executed in Australia named what?
answer: Ronald Joseph Ryan
context: Title: James French (murderer)
  Passage: James D. French (ca. 1936 – 10 August 1966) was an American criminal who was the last person executed under Oklahoma's death penalty laws prior to "Furman v. Georgia", which suspended capital punishment in America from 1972 until 1976.  He was also the only prisoner executed in the United States that year.  Already in prison for life for killing a motorist who had picked him up from hitchhiking in 1958, but allegedly afraid to commit suicide, French murdered his cellmate, apparently to compel the state to execute him.
  Title: Ronald Ryan
  Passage: Ronald Joseph Ryan (21 February 1925 – 3 February 1967) was the last person to be legally executed in Australia.  Ryan was found guilty of shooting and killing warder George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison, Victoria, in 1965.  Ryan's hanging was met with some of the largest public protests in the history of Australia and led to the end of capital punishment.  The death penalty was abolished in 1985.
  Title: Vladimír Lulek
  Passage: Vladimir Lulek (21 May 1953, Šťáhlavy – 2 February 1989, Prague) was a Czech murderer who killed his wife and four children on December 22, 1986, and also attempted to kill his neighbour.  He was executed on February 2, 1989 at Pankrác Prison in Prague.  He was the last person executed in the Czech Republic.  (Štefan Svitek was the last person executed in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia with his death on June 8, 1989)
  Title: Boris Dekanidze
  Passage: Boris Dekanidze (Georgian: ბორის დეკანიძე ; 13 December 1962 – 12 July 1995) was the head of the "Vilnius Brigade" criminal organization in Lithuania.  In 1994, he was convicted of ordering the murder of Lithuanian journalist Vitas Lingys and was executed by Lithuania.  Dekanidze was the last person executed by Lithuania prior to its abolition of the death penalty in 1998.
  Title: Barry Dickins
  Passage: Barry Dickins (born 1949) is a prolific Australian playwright, author, artist, actor, educator and journalist, probably best known for his historical dramas and his reminisces about growing up and living in working class Melbourne.  His most well-known work is the award winning stage play "Remember Ronald Ryan", a dramatization of the life and subsequent death of Ronald Ryan, the last man executed in Australia.  He has also written dramas and comedies about other controversial figures like poet Sylvia Plath, opera singer Joan Sutherland, criminal Squizzy Taylor, actor Frank Thring, playwright Oscar Wilde and artist Brett Whiteley.
  Title: Helena Curtens
  Passage: Helena (Hellene Mechthildis) Curtens (1722 in Gerresheim – 19 August 1738 in Gerresheim) was an alleged German witch.  She was one of the last people executed for sorcery in Germany and the last person executed for this crime within the Rhine area.  Her case is one of the most known cases in Europe, as she was long thought to be the last person executed for this crime in Germany.
  Title: Štefan Svitek
  Passage: Stefan Svitek (chesh.  Štefan Svitek) (January 23, 1960, Podbrezová, Banská Bystrica Region, Czechoslovakia – June 8, 1989, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) was a Czechoslovak murderer who killed his pregnant wife and two daughters in 1987.  For this crime, Svitek was sentenced to death.  He was the last person executed in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia.  Vladimír Lulek was the last person executed in the Czech Republic with his death on February 2, 1989.
citations: Barry Dickins Ronald Ryan