Robert John "Bob" Carr (born 28 September 1947)[1] is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate representing the state of New South Wales and Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2012. He previously served as the Premier of New South Wales from 4 April 1995 to 3 August 2005.[2] He holds the record for the longest continuous service as Premier of NSW. Only Sir Henry Parkes served longer, although Parkes held the office on five separate occasions.
Carr was born in the Sydney suburb of Matraville, to Edward and Phyllis Carr. He was educated at Matraville High School from which he graduated as dux in 1964.[3] He was the first person in his family to finish high school, and became interested in a career in politics in his teenage years.[4] While still a 15 year old student at school, he joined the local branch of the Australian Labor Party. He would go on to become the President of the New South Wales branch and then the national President of Young Labor in 1970 and 1972 respectively.[5] He completed his tertiary education at the University of New South Wales, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with honours in history.
After graduation, Carr worked as a journalist for the ABC Radio's AM and PM current affair programs from 1969 to 1971. He was also a reporter on industrial relations and politics for The Bulletin magazine from 1978 to 1983.[5] He later recalled that his work as a journalist provided good preparation for his political career.[4] He also spent a period working as an education officer for the Labor Council of New South Wales (1972–78).[5]
In 1972, Carr met a Malaysian economics student, Helena John on a vacation in Tahiti, and they married on 24 February 1973. Helena Carr became a successful businesswoman; while she provided strong personal support, Helena largely remained out of the political spotlight during her husband's career.[6]
Carr entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at a by-election in October 1983 as the member for Maroubra, representing the Australian Labor Party.[2] In December 1984 he was appointed Minister for Planning and the Environment in the Neville Wran government. In February 1986 he also took on the Consumer Affairs portfolio, which he held until he became Minister for Heritage in July 1986 when Barrie Unsworth became premier.[7]
The Unsworth Labor government was defeated in a landslide in March 1988, in the context of a 'time for a change' sentiment after 12 years of Labor. Carr was interested in international relations, and his long-term ambition was to enter federal politics and become Minister for Foreign Affairs.[8] However, following the election Carr was pressured by his own Right faction to stand for the leadership. Further, the party organisation did not want Laurie Brereton as leader; he would go on to represent the federal seat of Kingsford Smith, which Carr viewed as his path to federal politics.[9] Thus Carr reluctantly agreed to become Leader of the Opposition.[3] His diary entries from the time reveal his thoughts.
I spent today like a doomed man, taking phone calls and drafting a statement, still saying to the press I wasn't shifting. I feel a jolt in my stomach about what I'm getting myself in for. I will destroy my career in four years. Everything's altered. It's my fate ... So, for better or for worse, I become leader of the party next week.[10]
Despite his misgivings, Carr's performance as Opposition Leader gained approval in the party as he approached his task seriously.[8] He maintained a disciplined message, attacking Nick Greiner's coalition government for waste and mismanagement while releasing his own costed policies to present Labor as an alternative government.[11] Polling in the lead-up to the 1991 election suggested another heavy defeat, yet Labor performed strongly and won back all but one of the seats lost at the previous election, and Greiner was forced to lead a minority government with the support of independents.[3]
In 1992 Greiner resigned following adverse findings against him from the Independent Commission Against Corruption. John Fahey replaced him as premier, but was hampered by his need to negotiate with independents.[7] Carr ran a focused campaign in the 1995 election and won government with a majority of one seat.[12]
In 1995 he became Premier at another close election. His government continued to win big majorities in both 1999 and 2003.[13]
His centrist, cautious government was characterised by conservative financial management[14] and the encouragement of market forces, and a "tough on crime" policy. It was also seen as having a strong pro-environment character and being committed to curriculum rigour, testing and literacy initiatives in schools. Carr ventured into national policy issues, particularly issues concerning the environment, population growth, embryonic stem cell research, Federal-State relations and support for a minimalist model of an Australian Republic. In terms of economic management, the government led by Bob Carr from 1995 to 2005 alongside State Treasurers Michael Egan and Andrew Refshauge, delivered ten consecutive budget surpluses.
Nature conservation emerged as a high priority early in the life of the Carr government. It quickly banned canal estates because of the impact on the quality of river systems. The government implemented a key election promise to save the South East forests that straddle the coastal range from Batemans Bay to the Victorian border. These had been slated for logging when the state government was elected. Carr’s election policy had included a commitment to protect 90,000 hectares in a string of new national parks. He exceeded the promise, gazetting 120,000 hectares. He later argued that this action had “saved the magnificent Myamba Gorge, the upper Towamba River and the ancient towering forests of the Coolangubra and Tantawangalo, crammed with their gliders, bandicoots and owls”.[15] The initiative was supported by a six million dollar restructuring package to build a modern mill and a 20 year guarantee of alternative timber to keep it busy.
Following the 1999 state election, Carr declared 100 new national parks between Nowra and the Bega Valley.[15] Before leaving office Carr stopped logging in the Brigalow belt, in the Pilliga region north of Coonabarabran. This intervention saved “semi-arid woodland of ironbark and Cypress pine, its Malleefowl and Barking Owl, and provid[ed] the chance to recharge the reserves of the Great Artesian Basin”.[15]
Negotiations to restructure the mills in the Brigalow Belt were painstaking but successful. Carr claimed in 2009 that “rural towns did not ‘die’ as a result of these conservation measures. The old timber towns now boast communities with a strong economic base, world-class national parks on their doorstep and thriving nature-based tourism”.[15]
In its first term the government banned the removal of old-growth vegetation from farmlands and introduced pricing for rural water and an environmental allocation to the state’s river systems. Both initiatives proved controversial in pitching farmers and the state government in conflict.
In June 2001 Carr banned jet skis from Sydney Harbour. “You wouldn’t allow motor bikes in the Botanic Gardens” he said.[16]
Two other decisions on forests won the support of the NSW conservation movement. In 2003 the government saved the so called forest icons, now regarded as jewels in the reserve system in north-eastern NSW. They included, in Carr’s own words, “the old growth forest at Chaelundi where historic conservation battles had been fought a decade previously; nationally significant biodiversity hotspots at Whian; and the largest koala population on the east coast on SNW at Pine Creek near Coffs Harbour".[15]
The curbs on the clearing of nature vegetation were counted as a serious anti-greenhouse gas measure, helping Australia achieve its Kyoto targets. In addition, in January 2003 the Carr government launched the world’s first greenhouse gas trading scheme, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme, which set a limit on carbon emissions by electricity retailers. It was listed by the World Bank as the world’s first carbon trading scheme.
In 2004 the government created the building sustainability index which set up energy and water reduction targets that all new houses had to meet.[17] It mandated reductions in energy and water use of up to 40 percent in every new dwelling.
Pursuing environmentalism and education improvement gave Carr a lot of satisfaction. He noted in his diary for 21 April 1997:
Yesterday our school reforms were announced. All the ideas I’d formulated in Opposition. Four-unit English for the HSC. Compulsory exams at the end of Year 10. Soft options gone… I mark the package with forestry. I could leave politics and be satisfied with my achievements.[17]
During Carr’s 10 years as Premier net debt was reduced from 7.4 percent of gross state product to zero. Carr claimed his government was the first in the state’s history to reduce debt rather than add to it. But, he argued, investment in infrastructure was running at record levels during his years in office. He argued that in 10 Carr budgets he allocated $61 billion to new infrastructure and $10 billion to debt retirement.[18]
Carr said public investment was running in real terms adjusted for inflation at 33 percent higher than the average for the 1990s and 66 percent higher than the average for the 1980s. He quoted as examples the $2 billion spend on the new Epping–Chatswood rail link, the $1.5 billion rail clearways plan and the $490 million on 140 Millennium trains plus 440 million on other rolling stock. He also instanced the new bus transit ways such as the $346 million transit way from Liverpool to Parramatta that provides express way conditions to bus travellers in Sydney’s west. Carr also built more major motorways in Sydney, than any other Premier of NSW. These included the Eastern Distributor, the M5 East, the Westlink M7, the Cross City Tunnel and the Lane Cove Tunnel.
Carr boasted of $3.7 billion on 27 major hospital projects from Broken Hill to Wyong. He particularly instanced the new St Vincent’s, the new sections of Royal Prince Alfred and the new Canterbury Hospital. He referred to the rebuilding of the Conservatorium of Music and the new Sydney Theatre in Hickson Road.[18]
Carr’s former Chief of Staff Graeme Wedderburn was critical of Carr’s successors for not initiating new infrastructure on the Carr model. Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald on 31 July 2010, he stated:
From 2005 to last year, it's hard to point to a single, new major transport project in Sydney that has gone to tender. No M4 East, no major rail line - not until Nathan Rees barged the South West Rail line back on to the agenda in November.
After Carr left office, many of his initiatives were opened by his successors. The largest of these were the forementioned $1.5 billion Westlink M7, opened in 2005 and the largest urban roads project in Australia; and the $2 billion Epping to Chatswood railway line, opened in 2009 and the largest urban rail project in the country.
In its second term the Carr government embarked on tort law reform that ultimately won Carr a description from Forbes Magazine as a "dragon slayer".[19] In 1999, with the cost of many forms of injury insurance increasing, Carr gave his Minister John Della Bosca the task of reform. It resulted in what Carr would call "legal rorts" being stripped from the system. The average price of a green slip (compulsory third party motor accident insurance) was to drop $150 on 1999 prices. Carr argued that this created a template for what he called "the most comprehensive tort reform that any government has developed, moving from motor accident to medical indemnity, public liability and worker’s compensation. [...] this tort law reform was the best microeconomic reform out of any state government in a decade. It cut the cost of doing business and fed directly into productivity improvement, not at the expense of workers but at the expense of the plaintiff lawyers who had fed on a culture of rorts and rip-offs”.[20]
Carr noted in his diary:
I have cost the law profession hundreds of millions. First, freeing business conveyancing from the lawyers’ monopoly in 1995. [Then] the reforming of accident compensation (cost them hundreds of millions alone) in 1999. Now cutting them out of the action on workers comp. It’s not worth being Premier unless you can take privileges off the undeserving.[21]
However the fact that the law effectively made it impossible to claim for any injury worth less than around $60,000 was criticised by New South Wales Chief Justice James Spigelman and others. Spigelman argued that it effectively "eliminates small claims" entirely, giving "people the right to be negligent and injure someone up to a given level before they become liable".[22] In other words, government agencies and corporations might make decisions that endanger public safety similar to that claimed about the Ford Pinto fuel tank controversy: it would be more economically rational to allow substandard work even if it endangered the public, because the payments for loss of wages and medical bills (under Medicare) would often be relatively small in comparison to the work required. Spigelman said:
The introduction of a requirement that a person be subject to fifteen percent of whole of body impairment—that percentage is lower in some states—before being able to recover general damages has been the subject of controversy. It does mean that some people who are quite seriously injured are not able to sue at all. More than any other factor I envisage this restriction will be seen as much too restrictive.[23]
As a result of the 1999 drug summit sponsored by the government the Carr cabinet introduced Australia’s first medically supervised injecting room for heroin users, located in King’s Cross. The government argued it would provide “a pathway to rehabilitation”. The government argued it was a harm minimisation measure to keep drug users alive until they make the decision to get off drugs. Other reforms included the introduction of drug courts and a voluntary diversion program that allows magistrates to refer offenders to treatment rather than lock them up.[20]
The Carr-led Opposition had backed a motion by independent John Hatton in May 1994 to establish a Royal Commission into corruption in the NSW Police. As a result, Carr inherited the work of the Royal Commission and its reports. In November 1996 one of the reports recommended that the government give increased power to the Police Commissioner to hire and fire all staff, random drug and alcohol testing of all police officers, the formation of the police detection commission to detect and audit police corruption. But the recommendations sparked strong objection from the Police Association backed by the Labor Council and demonstrations at parliament house by 1500 police. There was a revolt in Carr’s parliamentary party.[21]
The Premier was adamant that the commissioner must have the increased power if the police force were to be rid of corrupt or compromised officers. The legislation was passed. The Sydney Morning Herald stated in an editorial that Carr had shown “a steely courage in resisting the pressure of the police association"[21]
The Cross City Tunnel exit at Lincoln Crescent.
The Carr Government pioneered private public partnerships to fund additional infrastructure, creating a model followed in other states. Five new projects delivered Sydney a ring road system inclusive of the M5 Extension, the Eastern Distributor, the M2 Hills Motorway, the Westlink M7, the Lane Cove Tunnel, and the Cross City Tunnel. As a result up to an hour's travel time was reduced on a north-south journey in Sydney’s west using the 42 kilometres (26 mi) of Westlink M7. Motorists can get from the northern suburbs of Sydney to just south of Geelong, Victoria – with just one single set of traffic lights at Holbrook, New South Wales. The Cross City Tunnel eliminated 18 traffic lights on an east–west journey under the city and reduced the journey time by 20 minutes. These roads had a total value of A$$5.4 billion. All but $800 million was contributed by the private sector. This is in marked contrast to the infrastructure record of his predecessors in the Greiner–Fahey government, who in building the M4, M5 and the M2 Hills Motorway and the Anzac Bridge left the Carr government with A$10 billion of inherited debt – paid off over Carr’s term.[citation needed]
In 2007 Infrastructure Partnerships Australia awarded three projects began under Carr’s Premiership as the best PPPs in Australia. They were the Westlink M7 opened in late 2005; school construction and maintenance which the Auditor General said had saved tax payers $55 million; the maintenance of 626 new rail carriages, the largest procurement of trains in Australian history.[24]
Carr argued that the victory of his successor Morris Iemma (who was re-elected with a big majority in March 2007) came about because of this infrastructure spending. Writing in the Australian Financial Review on 27 March 2007, he observed that Barry Collier, the member for Miranda, had cited $500 million in infrastructure spending in his electorate including the rebuilding of Sutherland Hospital and the construction of Bangor Bypass and Woronora Bridge. Carr also pointed out that Steve Whan, the member for Monaro, had referred to the $60 million rebuilding of Queanbeyan hospital. In Parramatta, he argued, a new rail-bus interchange worth $100 million was a dramatic demonstration of the local member’s capacity to deliver.[25]
A year after his appointment as premier, Carr caused controversy when he recommended that the newly appointed New South Wales Governor, Gordon Samuels, not live at Government House, which would become a museum open to the public. This decision was seen by monarchists as an attempt by Carr, a republican, to downgrade the importance of the office of Governor.
Carr’s Government was responsible for the building of facilities and the conduct of the 2000 Olympic Games, described by the International Olympic Committee as 'the best ever!'. Carr was to boast that the 2000 Olympics were paid in full without a cent in debt.[18]
By March of 2004, public support for Carr started to slip; Newspoll showed that for the first time more people were dissatisfied than satisfied with the Premier. The opposition were exploiting the fact that the lack of planning had not kept pace with a growing capital city where public transport, water and power supplies became increasingly neglected.[12] Even after series of announcements and re-announcements of more trains, and power stations, and a desalination plant, the public had seen enough of Carr. By June 2005, only 35%[26] were satisfied with his performance whereas his dissatisfaction rating had been over 51% since September 2004.
After ten years as Premier, Carr announced his resignation both as Premier and as the Member for Maroubra on 27 July 2005 to be effective from 3 August. This immediately prompted speculation that the resignation was a prelude to a move into federal politics, but Carr denied this. His successor as Premier was former Health Minister Morris Iemma. Carr's resignation triggered the resignations of Deputy Premier Andrew Refshauge and Planning Minister Craig Knowles.
Retired Premier Neville Wran described Carr as "the very model of a modern Labor premier, an articulate and powerful public performer who identified himself with the contemporary policy issues of education and the environment." Wran noted that the Carr model became a template for other Australian Labor Party leaders, with some regarding him as a mentor.[27]
Under Carr the NSW government was able to boast that while in 1994 there were 328 national parks covering four million hectares of NSW, Carr’s policies meant 770 national parks covering 6.6 million hectares by 2006. Wilderness protection was expanded: there were 650,000 hectares (1,600,000 acres) in 1994, by 2006 nearly two million hectares.
The North Side Sewage Tunnel, funded by the government in its first term, stopped more than 20 billion litres of sewage reaching Sydney harbour and saw whales and dolphins return to it. The government also built pollution traps to capture litter and rubbish that would have otherwise been flushed with storm water onto Sydney beaches. In 1994, before the election of the government, 430 kilograms (950 lb) of waste was being generated by every Sydney resident each year, and only 60 kilograms (130 lb) being recycled. Reforms to the waste industry saw a 28 percent reduction to 310 kilograms (680 lb) per person and a 65 percent increase in recycling to 102 kilograms (220 lb) per person.[28]
Media commentary following Carr's retirement noted that his achievements included improvements to education standards and literacy rates. Writing in the Australian Financial Review in March 2007 Carr quoted one school head, Jenny Allum of SCEGGS Darlinghurst, “I know of no national test in which NSW students are not at the top"[25]
He received credit for the increase in the number and size of the State's national parks.[12] Less positive comment was received about rail transport which recorded a period of poor on-time running and a damaging industrial dispute in 2004.[12]
Bob Carr is the author of several books, including Thoughtlines (Viking, 2002) and My Reading Life (Penguin, 2008). He is a charter member of the Chester A. Arthur Society, a U.S. political trivia group named after the U.S. president, 1881-1885.[29][30]
In May 2003, a biography by Marilyn Dodkin, Bob Carr: the reluctant leader, was published. It was partly based on Carr's private diaries and included his often uncomplimentary thoughts on various political personalities.[31] A second biography, Bob Carr: A Self-Made Man, by Andrew West and Rachel Morris, was published in September 2003 by Harper Collins.
Carr appeared on stage at the 2004 Sydney Festival in conversation with Sir Tom Stoppard[32] and has associated with other writers including Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
After leaving state parliament, Carr involved himself heavily in public debate. He championed embryonic stem cell research and helped persuade his successor not to retreat from support for the polling he had promoted in government. Writing in The Daily Telegraph on 24 August 2006 he argued, “Stem cell research enjoys great public support. Let the doctors and scientists get on with the job. Their research might save a life in your family or mine”.[33] Urging support for somatic cell nuclear transfer (or therapeutic cloning) he wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald on 25 July 2006:
There is an air of unreality about the rejection by the Prime Minister, John Howard, of the Lockhart review, which recommended the go-ahead for one form of stem cell treatment, called somatic cell nuclear transfer (or therapeutic cloning), leaving it to the states to ponder whether they can validly legislate on their own. A century from now, people will consider this bewildering, especially when the embryos are byproducts of IVF treatment and if not used in research get thrown out in plastic bags of hospital waste.[34]
He continued to champion nature conservation for example by advocating generous national park declarations over the River Red Gums. The river red gums are “Australian icons, part of our folklore, symbols of inland Australia” he wrote in an op-ed in The Sydney Morning Herald in July 2009.[35]
He was described by journalist Paul Kelly as the nation’s leading opponent of a charter of rights. When the federal government accepted Carr’s argument against a charter, Carr wrote in The Australian that, “If the public believed the executive arm of government were stifling freedoms, Australia slipping behind other democracies, there would have been a decided shove towards a human rights act”. He continued “Instead…it sunk below the water, not leaving a slick of printer’s ink”.[36]
Pursuing the interest in literacy he urged an opening of the Australian book market to permit the import of cheaper books.[37]
The rise in the annual immigration intake brought Carr into the debate on what he calls 'Australia’s carrying capacity'. Wrote Mathew Moore in The Sydney Morning Herald “For more than two decades Bob Carr has been warning Australians against unchecked population growth, cautioning that the fragile soils and erratic rivers of the world’s oldest continent make it highly vulnerable to the pressures imposed by every extra resident”.[38]
Carr has argued that “The debate is about whether immigration should be running at very high levels. It’s about whether we end up with a population of 36 million in 2050 in contrast to the previous expectation of 28.5 million".[39]
During the 2010 Federal election, both sides of politics appeared to accept Carr's arguments.
Carr took up the issue of obesity and argued that chain restaurants should be forced by law to put calorie measurements next to menu items, that trans fats be banned as in some US states and food manufacturers be made to reduce salt content.[40] NSW Premier Kristina Keneally appeared to accept his case with an announcement of a State government initiative on food labelling in May 2010.[41]
In retirement Carr has made speeches at international conferences on climate change, Australia-China relations and multiculturalism. He interviewed American novelist Gore Vidal at the Shanghai and Hong Kong writers' festivals in 2007 and Simon Sebag Montefiore, biographer of Stalin, at Sydney Writers' Week in 2008.
In October 2005 Carr became a part-time consultant for Macquarie Bank, Australia's largest investment bank, advising the company on policy, climate change, renewables and strategic issues with a focus on the United States and the People's Republic of China.[42]
Carr continued pursuing his literary interests, interviewing authors and lecturing regularly at the Sydney Writers' Festival.[43] He appeared as a guest reporter for the ABC television show Foreign Correspondent, conducting an interview with friend Gore Vidal.[44] In 2008 he attended the Australia 2020 Summit as part of the economy panel, and raised the issues of an Australian Republic and childhood obesity.[45]
He has been serving on the board of book retailer Dymocks since July 2007 and the board of directors at the United States Studies Centre since 2009.
In 2010 he was appointed Patron of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Foundation and Patron of the Chifley home, Bathurst.
On 2 March 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that Carr would fill a casual vacancy in the Australian Senate caused by the resignation of Mark Arbib, and would become the new Minister for Foreign Affairs in succession to Kevin Rudd. At a media conference with Gillard, Carr confirmed that he would seek election to the Senate after his present term expired.[46]
Carr was formally chosen to fill the vacant Senate position by a joint sitting of the NSW Parliament on 6 March 2012.[47] He was sworn as a Senator and Minister for Foreign Affairs on 13 March.[48]
His work on Australia–US relations has been recognised with the Fulbright Distinguished Fellow Award Scholarship.[49] He donated the prize money to launch scholarships for the State's teachers to complete studies abroad. His services to conservation have been recognised with a World Conservation Union International Parks Merit Award and Life Membership in the Wilderness Society.
In 2008 he was awarded the Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic), the second of five grades of the order, in recognition of his services to Italian culture.[50]
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Carr, Robert John (full name) |
| Short description |
Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales, Senator and Foreign Minister |
| Date of birth |
28 September 1947 |
| Place of birth |
Matraville, New South Wales |
| Date of death |
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| Place of death |
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