The Hon Bob Carr
The Hon Bob Carr
Bob Carr was Premier of NSW for 10 years until his retirement August 2005.
His biggest achievements in office include hosting the most successful Olympic Games ever, achieving highest-ever levels of literacy among school students, declaring 350 new national parks and enacting tough new greenhouse benchmarks.-
Mr. Carr received the World Conservation Union International Parks Merit Award in 1998. He received a Fulbright Distinguished Fellow Award in 1999 for a significant contribution to Australian-American relations. In 2004 he served as a member of Tony Blair's International Climate Change Taskforce.
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Mr. Carr is the author of two books, Thoughtlines: Reflections of a Public Man (2002) and What Australia Means To Me (2003).
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