Born: Established: 1947 Maroubra, Randwick area, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender:
Male
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Diary of a Foreign Minister
Sydney
:
NewSouth Publishing
,
2014
7265417
2014
single work
autobiography
diary
'Six years after vacating his position as the longest-serving Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr returned to politics in his dream job: as Foreign Minister of Australia and a senior federal cabinet minister.
'For 18 months he kept a diary documenting a whirl of high-stakes events on the world stage – the election of Australia to the UN Security Council, the war in Syria and meetings with the most powerful people on the planet. And they all unfold against the gripping, uncertain domestic backdrop of Labor Party infighting, plummeting polls and a leadership change from Gillard back to Rudd.
'This compelling diary provides an intimate glimpse into the day-to-day workings of a foreign minister and proves that Carr is not only a master politician and statesman, but a great writer as well.' (Publication summary)
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