Australian ex-minister defends diary as 'darn good read'

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Australian ex-minister defends diary as 'darn good read'

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/australian-ex-minister-defends-diary-darn-good-read-030003002.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rgLIssnTM0HUZmnQuCqneg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0a467765b54ced4e2ab69e8980835dbf9a0cbdb1.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Australia's then Foreign Minister Bob Carr speaks during a luncheon in Hong Kong, on July 26, 2013" align="left" title="Australia's then Foreign Minister Bob Carr speaks during a luncheon in Hong Kong, on July 26, 2013" border="0" /></a>Former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr on Thursday defended his new book in which he savages colleagues, speculates about whether US peers have had plastic surgery and derides business class travel as inspired by the slave trade. Carr, who spent just 18 months in the job until the Labor government was ousted in elections last September, also wrote that China seems to see Australia as &quot;only slightly more important than New Zealand&quot; and wishes Canberra was &quot;a little less craven&quot; towards the United States. &quot;I am Foreign Minister... I soar above the mundane and serve my country,&quot; he writes in &quot;Diary of a Foreign Minister&quot;, a book he admits is heavy on self-parody. Seated next to Russian leader Vladimir Putin and across from US President Barack Obama, Carr recalls the words of late author Gore Vidal: &quot;I cannot feel humble.</p><br clear="all"/>

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