"Fragrant, methane-wrapped bullshit": NZ should steer clear of AUKUS
"Fragrant, methane-wrapped bullshit": NZ should steer clear of AUKUS
Bob Carr

"Fragrant, methane-wrapped bullshit": NZ should steer clear of AUKUS

I don’t want to appall the diplomats present by using a vulgarism, but Pillar two [of AUKUS] is fragrant methane-wrapped bullshit. Australia and New Zealand are beautifully placed to nurture and defend a different model of relationships between the prevailing power [the US] and the rising power [China]: A different approach from the one that says war is inevitable, says former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr.

Watch Bob Carr speak at the New Zealand Foreign Policy Symposium on last week in Wellington:

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Bob Carr

Bob Carr is a former Premier of New South Wales (1995–2005), a former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (2012–2013) and the former Director of the Australia–China Relations Institute, the University of Technology Sydney (2014–2019).

Bob Carr was the longest-serving premier of NSW and a federal Labor foreign minister.

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