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Australia's Wilful Blindness On Sri Lanka

'Enhanced screening' is the latest deterrent aimed at Sri Lankan asylum seekers - as Bob Carr continues to ignore the Rajapakse government's human rights violations, writes Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon

Reader riposte: Roosevelt's five envoys

Steve Weintz responds to this video of Foreign Minister Bob Carr and Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove talking at the launch of Michael's new book, Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary...Show More Summary

On Roosevelt, Churchill, and pivots

Here's a delightful chat between two history buffs, one of whom happens to be the Australian foreign minister, Bob Carr, who was at the Lowy Institute on Wednesday to launch Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove's new book,...Show More Summary

If Julia Gillard and Bob Carr aren’t complete hypocrites they’d disown Bob Ellis

Labor speechwriter Bob Ellis pretends he didn’t write one of his vilest and most obscene slurs yet -

Julian Assange’s six degrees of separation from reality

Back away very slowly: Meanwhile, in the Ecuadorian embassy, Julian Assange joins the dots between Bob Carr,…

Bob Ellis: the authentic voice of Labor’s moral decline

Remember as you read this that Bob Ellis is a Labor speechwriter and friend of Foreign Minister Bob Carr.…

Is Bob Carr really saying he didn’t ask Gillard to resign?

Julia Gillard denies: Ms Gillard, who saw off a botched coup attempt by Kevin Rudd…

Rumor: Bob Carr asks Julia Gilalrd to resign

Julie Bishop to Julia Gillard in Question Time: Can she confirm media reports that Bob Carr asked her to step down for…

China steals new Australia spy agency blueprints: report

Chinese hackers have stolen top-secret blueprints to Australia’s new intelligence agency headquarters, a report said Tuesday, but Foreign Minister Bob Carr insisted ties with Beijing would not be hurt. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation...Show More Summary

Labor’s new Middle East strategy. I don’t think it’s helping us

Why has Foreign Minister Bob Carr spent three days this week in Lebanon? Is the Middle East really a foreign affairs priority, when there is…

Australia’s Realist Malaysian Policy

Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr has defended putting economics first in ties with Malaysia, saying it was “improper” to intervene over alleged election irregularities. Speaking Tuesday to the Australia Malaysia Business Council...Show More Summary

Why One Man Fled Sri Lanka

Bob Carr says the Sri Lankan Government doesn’t commit torture. A Melbourne refugee who claims he was brutally tortured by Sri Lankan officials this month disagrees, writes Trevor Grant

Australian foreign minister accuses Lady Thatcher of racism. Why didn't he say so when she was alive? This smacks of cowardice

The Australian foreign minister, Bob Carr, has made an extraordinarily badly timed statement about Mrs Thatcher. He told the Lateline programme on ABC TV: I recall one conversation I had with her in her retirement where she said something that was unabashedly racist, where she warned Australia – talking to me with Helena [his wife] standing [...]

Australia Foreign Minister Bob Carr claims Thatcher made ‘racist’ comment

Thatcher a racist? No, Carr a fraud

Bob Carr defames a dead woman by framing an important warning as merely “racist”, adding the word…

Monday links: Mega FTA, Indonesia's artists, Bob Carr, JSF and more

ASEAN's proposed mega-regional FTA would be the largest in the world and would change the global economy. What if there were no economists? As well as Australia, South Korea, Japan and Singapore are likely to be JSF customers in Asia. WikiLeaks outs Bob Carr as a US 'informant'. Show More Summary

Grading Australia-Indonesia defence relations: Good, but could do better

Defence Minister Stephen Smith and Foreign Minister Bob Carr have been in Jakarta this week for the annual 2+2 Australia-Indonesia talks. It was a business-as-usual dialogue, with few major announcements. Australia is offering an additional...Show More Summary

DPRK 'almost ready' to deploy ICBM?

Yesterday on Radio National, Foreign Minister Bob Carr said the following about North Korea: In terms of military intelligence, it appears the country is almost ready to deploy an intercontinental ballistic missile with a capacity of...Show More Summary

Melanesians Line Up To Back A Free West Papua

west papua Keywords: papua new guinea bob carr west papua jason macleod airileke ingram Leaders in Papua New Guinea and other Melanesian nations are showing their support for a free West Papua. Bob Carr is moving against the regional tide, write Airileke Ingram and Jason MacLeod Melanesian support for a free West Papua has always been high. Show More Summary

Reader ripostes: TNI and Bob Carr

Below, a comment from Jorge Bechara on Rodger Shanahan's Bob Carr's Selective Indignation. But first, Andrew Johnson: I appreciate that Gary Hogan has expanded on his contribution and rightly points out that he is bringing his own experience into the understanding of Indonesia and its potential in world affairs. Show More Summary