Bob Carr
Bob Carr is the longest-serving premier of NSW and a former foreign minister of Australia.
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Voice to parliament
The movie that erased my doubts about the Voice
If there was someone on the Labor side who needed assurance, it might have been me – but not after the opening scene of this one film.
- by Bob Carr
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AUKUS
Australia’s biggest AUKUS risk? Our allies’ Plan B
There is no precedent for building a submarine hull in one country, installing another country’s technology and assembling it in a third which has no nuclear expertise.
- by Bob Carr
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Human rights
If Albanese’s such a buddy of Biden’s, why is Assange still in jail?
Australia under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in danger of looking like a client state of the USA. It’s all give, and no take.
- by Bob Carr
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AUKUS
We’ve long said no to the US on Taiwan. Saying yes now would tempt nuclear attack
A former Australian foreign affairs minister says we must preserve our right to say no to joining any future war against China.
- by Bob Carr
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China relations
Australia can safely improve its relations with China. Here’s how
Australia’s relationship with China has sharply deteriorated since 2017. But there are initiatives we can, should and must deploy to improve bilateral ties.
- by Bob Carr
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Assange saga
If Albanese asks for Assange’s freedom, Biden has every reason to agree: Bob Carr
Australia’s former Labor foreign affairs minister writes that this is the new prime minister’s moment to tell the US president what he has already declared publicly about the Assange case: “Enough is enough.”
- by Bob Carr
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Australia votes
On the back of urgency on climate, Australia is tipping centre-left
Climate was a decisive issue in Saturday’s election - and not only in the teal seats.
- by Bob Carr
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China relations
The one word that will stop war over Taiwan
A descent into war between the world’s superpowers over a neuralgic issue that diplomacy has constrained for 70 years is the last thing our battered and bruised planet wants.
- by Bob Carr
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Climate policy
‘Everybody’s scared’: The first mention in Australian media of global warming could only gesture to the future
In an ABC TV studio in 1971, so much ahead was unimaginable.
- by Bob Carr
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Political leadership
A land of flooding cliches, parched of eloquence: the impoverished vocabulary of Australian politicians
The former foreign affairs minister and longest-serving NSW premier laments what has become of the language of politics.
- by Bob Carr
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China relations
Where are the grown-ups? All this loose talk about China and war is dangerous
A war fought over which political order prevails in Taiwan is not worth the price. Australian diplomacy ought to be identifying the off-ramps that will avoid this nightmare, writes the former foreign affairs minister.
- by Bob Carr
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