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 of the most powerful people on the planet. And they all unfolded against the gripping, uncertain backdrop of Labor Party infighting, plummeting polls and leadership change from Gillard back to Rudd.

Bob Carr's diary provides an intimate glimpse into the day-to-day working of a foreign minister and proves that Carr is not only a master politician and statesman, but a great writer as well.

You are invited to meet Bob Carr when he introduces Diary of a Foreign Minister at 6.30pm on Thursday, June 26th at Berkelouw Books in Paddington.

Bookings are essential and can be made by phone on 9360 3200 or by email to paddington@berkelouw.com.au.

Cost is $ 8.50 which will be credited against any purchases made on the evening.

 

The Hon. Bob Carr was premier of New South Wales from 1995 until 2005. He served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from March 2012 to September 2013. He is currently Professorial Fellow aat the Sydney Southeast Asian Centre and ADjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales. his previous books are Thoughtlines (2002), What Australia Means to Me (2003) and My Reading Life (2008).

 

All author proceeds from The Diary of a Foreign Minister are being donated to Interplast Australian and New Zealand, a not-for-profit organisation which funds and delivers reconstructive surgery on poor children in developing countries.