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Record Nr.

UNINA9910661012403321

Autore

Carr Bob <1947->

Titolo

Diary of a foreign minister / / Bob Carr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, New South Wales : , : NewSouth, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-74224-170-0

1-74224-674-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (512 p.)

Disciplina

994.404092

Soggetti

Politicians - Australia

Foreign ministers - Australia

Electronic books.

Australia Politics and government

Australia Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acronyms; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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