Diaries of a first-class tosser:

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Diaries of a first-class tosser: former foreign minister Bob Carr’s moaning set to insult leaders around the globe

Former foreign minister Bob Carr in first-class jammies.Source: DailyTelegraph

FORMER foreign minister Bob Carr was last night labeled “arrogant” and “foolish” for risking diplomatic ties after leaked extracts of his new diaries revealed him complaining about taxpayer-funded first and business class travel and questioning whether top US leaders had plastic surgery.

Mr Carr complains about inedible food and a lack of pyjamas in business class where seats were akin to “trans-Atlantic slave trade”, a lack of subtitles on an Opera film in first class and even the perk of getting an upgrade to first because he could only book business as “a middle-power foreign minister”.

In other extracts already dubbed “Bridget Carr’s Diary”, the exercised-obsessed former NSW premier reveals during a trip to Cairo that his ambition was to “have a concave abdomen defined by deep-cut obliques”.

He also writes that he “cannot feel humble” after attending a G20 leaders meeting with US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in his last act in the job last September.

“Interested, curious, of course. Just not humble,” he writes in Diary of a Foreign Minister.

Mr Carr also muses about the possibility of plastic surgery work for US Senator John McCain (“younger and more sparkle-eyed than I might have expected”) and US Secretary of State John Kerry (“I noticed something about the skin”).

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop last night seized on the leaks, saying the “gratuitous” personal observations and discussion of confidential meetings were unworthy of any Australian politician, let alone a foreign minister.

“While it is tempting to ridicule the arrogant foolishness of this egotistical self-promoter, his book carries a real risk of damaging Australia’s standing among currently serving world leaders,” she said.

But Mr Carr insisted that he had respected confidences and the national interest, noting there had been 15 memoirs by US secretaries of state including a recent one which alleged Kevin Rudd had sent them to sleep.

“I’m proud to have produced a book that tells Australians how foreign policy is made,” he said.

Elsewhere in the diaries, Mr Carr writes that he was “the best chairman I know” after leading a meeting and, during a busy day of media appearances, declaring he had “more energy than 16 gladiators”.

His travel demands are revealed in a letter from a Singapore Airlines executive who apologises for Mr Carr’s in-flight entertainment experience in first class.

“Specifically, I have taken note of the lack of English subtitles for the Wagner opera Siegfried,’’ the executive wrote.

Mr Carr also laments travelling in business class during a trans-Atlantic flight.

“Business class. No edible food. No airline pyjamas,” Mr Carr notes. “I lie in my tailored suit.” On another flight, he was particularly savage: “Eating plastic — no ceramic — food, passengers lying in cribs, packed in business class, a design that owes a lot to the trans-Atlantic slave trade ...” Occasionally an airline would upgrade Mr Carr and wife Helena, but even this good fortune had a gloomy response.

“Pathetic that the public service rules reduce me to that, an upgrade for a middle-power foreign minister,” he wrote.

The diaries have 22 index entries under diet and 36 under exercise. “I did two hours of Pilates, then to Double Bay for my third meditation lesson; then to the office to read cables; to the gym ...” Mr Carr writes one day.

There is also guide to the perfect breakfast: “(1) organic steel-cut oats (2) lots of berries, every kind (3) two poached eggs.”

BOB CARR’S FLIGHTS OF FANCY:

On sitting alongside Obama and Putin at the G20 leaders meeting:

“I cannot feel humble. Interested, curious, of course. Just not humble.”

On flying business class:

“Business class. No edible food. No airline pyjamas. I lie in my tailored suit.”

On flying business class again:

“Eating plastic — no ceramic — food, passengers lying in cribs, packed in business class, a design that owes a lot to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.”

On a first class upgrade with wife Helena:

“Pathetic that the public service rules reduce me to that, an upgrade for a middle-power foreign minister.”

A Singapore Airlines executive responds to his complaint about first class entertainment:

“Please accept my sincere apology if any part of our first class in-flight offering fell below your expectations. Specifically, I have taken note of the lack of English subtitles for the Wagner opera Siegfried.”

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