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A member of the Australian Labor Party, Carr entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as MP for Maroubra in 1984, becoming Opposition Leader after Labor's 1988 defeat. After losing a tight election to Nick Greiner 's coalition government in 1991, he became Premier in a comfortable victory in 1995 and won comfortably again in 1999 and 2003.
Carr, the son of a tram-driver, was educated at the University of New South WalesThe University of New South Wales is a university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is composed of several campuses; the central campus being located in Kensington just South-East of the Sydney CBD, and also additional campuses and field stations, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in history. He makes no secret of his intellectual leanings, and still occasionally writes book reviews for the major newspapers; he appeared on stage at the 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co Sydney Festival in conversation with Tom StoppardSir Tom Stoppard OM is a British playwright, famous for plays such as The Real Thing and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and for the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love''. Stoppard was born TomaS Straussler in Zlin, Czechoslovakia on July 3, 1937..
Like many contemporary leaders of social democratic parties, his government preaches responsible financial management, encouragement of market forces, with substantial privatization of government assets such as the electricity industry, and makes much of its "tough on crime" policies, crime being a particular obsession of Sydney and much of its tabloid media.
Carr occasionally ventures into national policy issues, particularly environmental issues where he has consistently argued that Australia's population growth is environmentally and socially unsustainable. Until the election of Mark LathamMark William Latham (born 28 February 1961), Australian politician, is leader of the federal parliamentary Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition in Australia. He succeeded Simon Crean as leader in December 2003, defeating former leader Kim B as leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party the continued weakness of federal Labor, particularly in New South Wales, produced continuing rumblings about his co-option to the position. This now seems unlikely.
Bob Carr is the author of several books, the best known being Thoughtlines (Viking, 2002). He is also an acknowledged expert on the lives and times of some of the more obscure Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the United States.
In May 2003, a biography by Marilyn Dodkin , Bob Carr: The Reluctant Leader, was published to some acclaim, partly as it was based on Carr's private diaries and included his often not complimentary thoughts on various political personalities. A second biography, Bob Carr - A Self-Made Man by Andrew West and Rachel Morris , was published in September 2003 by Harper Collins.
In AugustSee August (album) for the album by Eric Clapton. August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days. Named in honor of Augustus Caesar. The month reputedly has 31 days because Augustus wanted as many days as Julius Caesar's Ju 2004, Carr faced criticism due to the closure of the Orange Grove retail outlet due to problems with zoning, which would have resulted in the loss of four hundred jobs of workers, and also by the commissioner of the Australian Independent Commission Against Corruption , due to his remarks that a minister being investigated by ICAC would be "vindicated" before ICAC released their findings, resulting in a charge of contempt.