Run for your life / Bob Carr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carr, Bob, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carr, Bob, 1947-.

Carr, Bob.

Politicians--Australia--New South Wales--Biography.

Politicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Australia : Melbourne University Press, 2018.

Summary:

All author proceeds from this book are donated to help the children displaced by the Syrian civil war by funding humanitarian aid through the registered charity Australia for UNHCR. Most political memoirs are boring.Bob Carr tears up the rules. He plunges in, beginning with the despair of a young man pining for a political career, convinced he's going nowhere, then vaulting to the exhilaration of a premier who, on one day, saves a vast forest and unveils the country's best curriculum.He lashes himself for ignoring a cry from a prisoner in a cell and for a breach of protocol with a US Supreme Court judge. He considers talking to the leader of a notorious rape gang and celebrates winning power against the odds: a leader without kids or any interest in sport.He describes growing up in a fibro house without sewerage and a 'lousy education' that produced a lifetime appetite for self-learning. He is candid about dealing with the media, dining with royals, working for Kerry Packer. He reveals the secrets he learnt from Neville Wran. He is open about his adulation of Gough Whitlam. Floating above all is Bob Carr's idea of public service in a party, he says, that resembles an old, scarred, barnacled whale. In an era of bland politicians, here's one with personality true to his quirky self.Silence the jet skis! Balance the budget! Liberate the dolphins! Roll out the toll roads! Declare a million hectares of eucalypt wilderness! Be a politician of character.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Thirty and going nowhere

Intermezzo

Cockroaches in the cells

What a day this has been

Hello, I must be going

Of seaweed, scrub and subdivisions

A lousy education

Fever in the blood

Events control me

Nev: always give 'em hope

The great man comes to university

Dry enough to win government?

The Carr crash

Opportunistic ferals

Our royal commission

A lonely government

Bob the builder

The tolls stuff-up

While the grilled salmon waits …

Not worth the candle

Injecting rooms: taking a stand

Me and sport

The Olympics

In love with Europe

The more the merrier

Kids?

Against mandatory sentencing

Trogs, Terrigals and the smashing of crockery

Me and 'the lobby'

The sausage-roll affair

Oops!

Just indictment

The rapist in his cell

The lock-out

What about the workers?

Beating the bastards

Call me a tree hugger

Goody, goody

Better humans than we

Is it 2050 and I am 102?

Hymn to our harbour

What about our rights?

The world's policeman

China panic

To change the country

Bundeena and the honour of it all

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522873146

0522873146

OCLC:

1043669319