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Australian Books

‘Qui, moi?’

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

Diary of a Foreign Minister Bob Carr

NewSouth, pp.502, $49.99, ISBN: 9781742234175

In 2008, Bob Carr was on an ABC panel show, pontificating about the wisdom of decisions of the US Supreme Court on racial issues. Another panellist, Christopher Hitchens, a guest from the US, interjected to say: ‘Like Dred Scott?’ Carr replied: ‘Yes, a great decision.’

Dred Scott was the 1857 decision which provided the legal underpinning of slavery.

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