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March 3rd, 2012 
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Video: Carr calls for party unity
(ABC News)
Incoming foreign minister Bob Carr has issued a warning to his Labor Party colleagues to stop leaking internal details to the media.
The former New South Wales premier was appointed to the role by Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Friday, after a week of speculation about whether he would be drafted in to fill Mark Arbib’s vacant Senate seat.
Mr Carr replaces Kevin Rudd, who was demoted to the backbench after losing Monday’s leadership ballot to Ms Gillard.
Mr Carr says while ministerial reshuffles can be brutal affairs, the practice of “gabbling” to the media has to be excised from Labor culture.
“It’s always surrounded by angst and disappointment. There’s no other way of doing it,” he said.
“A leader has got to make choices – a leader has got to choose.
“I had to do that as leader and it left people disappointed who thought sometimes quite reasonably that they could have done a job as well as the ministers chosen.
“But in the end, the team’s got to be assembled by the leader and so it has been.”
Mr Carr has also hit back at criticisms from the Opposition which says his appointment is a vote of no confidence in the Labor parliamentary team.
Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Julie Bishop says Ms Gillard’s selection is a humiliating put down of every other person in the caucus.
But Mr Carr says it is the Coalition front bench that is weak.
“I think the obvious retort to that is that there’s not much confidence in their front bench,” he said.
“In fact I think it’s an extraordinarily weak opposition. I can’t think of an opposition front bench that is weaker.
“If I were Tony Abbott I would be the last one to talk about the strength of front benches, given the team he’s got.”
Mr Carr says he has already had consultations with several overseas ministers including the UK’s foreign secretary, William Hague.
He says one of his first trips as foreign minister will be to New Zealand to discuss Pacific affairs.
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