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March 21st, 2012 
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 21/03/2012
Foreign Minister Bob Carr has given his maiden speech to Federal Parliament as the CIA has been forced to deny it is funding Australian green groups against the coal industry.
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STEVE CANNANE, PRESENTER: Bob Carr’s given his maiden speech to Federal Parliament, setting out his priorities as fighting climate change and promoting tolerance and human rights.
And the new Foreign minister already has a minor international incident on his hands with the US Central Intelligence Agency denying claims from billionaire miner Clive Palmer that it’s attempting to destroy Australia’s coal industry.
Political correspondent Tom Iggulden reports from Canberra.
TOM IGGULDEN, REPORTER: Four days out from the Queensland election and the state’s Opposition Leader’s distancing himself from one of his biggest supporters.
CAMPBELL NEWMAN, QLD OPPOSITION LEADER: He’s got nothing to do with myself and this campaign, I can tell you that.
TOM IGGULDEN: The environmental activist who Clive Palmer accused of being a CIA stooge is threatening to sue.
DREW HUTTON, LOCK THE GATE FOUNDER: I’m a fifth-generation Queenslander and I’m a proud Australian.
TOM IGGULDEN: The Greens were also a target for Mr Palmer’s conspiracy theory that America is trying to destroy the Australian mining industry.
ADAM BANDT, GREENS MP: It just goes to show that you don’t have to be smart to be rich.
TOM IGGULDEN: But now Mr Palmer’s backed down from his attack on the Greens, saying Bob Brown’s a patriot and his party’s sincere in their aims. “Maybe I’m not 100 per cent right and I’m sure they’re not 100 per cent right. I’m trying to broaden the debate,” he explained to an online newspaper.
But he’s still pointing the finger at Mr Hutton as a covert US operative.
DREW HUTTON: I mean, if Clive were to come down here now and apologise and say he got it wrong, then I’m quite happy to – I’d be quite happy to accept the apology and leave it at that. I’m not a great fan of litigation, unlike Clive.
TOM IGGULDEN: The Federal Opposition’s trying to laugh the matter off.
TONY ABBOTT, OPPOSITION LEADER: (Laughs). Look, he’s a character, he’s a larger than life character.
TOM IGGULDEN: But the Government says it’s no laughing matter.
GARY GRAY, SPECIAL MINISTER OF STATE: The total contribution to the Coalition now from Mr Palmer is over $4 million.
TOM IGGULDEN: But it couldn’t resist comparisons with a bumbling Hollywood secret agent.
NICOLA ROXON, ATTORNEY-GENERAL: I do have to wonder whether perhaps Mr Palmer has been watching too much Get Smart. He certainly is working very closely with Chaos over there.
TOM IGGULDEN: The punchline was predictable.
NICOLA ROXON: The Leader of the Opposition should be calling Mr Palmer and giving him a dressing down for this sort of behaviour and he can use his shoe phone if he thinks that’s a better idea.
TOM IGGULDEN: The most concise reaction to Mr Palmer’s claims came from the CIA itself, which told the ABC, “Simply put, these allegations are false.”
BOB CARR, FOREIGN MINISTER: It could create the impression that somehow we’re a risky place to do business when you’ve got such a formidable businessman so close to Tony Abbott talking about a CIA plot to wreck the Australian economy. You’re going to have investors thinking, “Woo, what’s this?”
TOM IGGULDEN: The Foreign Minister’s tonight given his maiden speech to the Senate.
BOB CARR: This is my last territorial claim on an Australian parliament.
TOM IGGULDEN: At some points he evoked memories of his predecessor.
BOB CARR: I’ve sometimes asked Chinese politicians as we’ve talked over dinner, “What was your favourite dynasty?”
TOM IGGULDEN: At others, his grasp of the international debate …
BOB CARR: I remember King Abdullah of Jordan saying at a Davos conference in 2004 …
TOM IGGULDEN: But Mr Carr displayed a weaker knowledge of local affairs when interviewed on the ABC when asked about the death of a Brazilian student who was tasered by Sydney police.
BOB CARR (on 7.30): At the reception we had just now I saw the Brazilian ambassador and I expressed my heartfelt condolences, asked him to pass them onto the parents.
TOM IGGULDEN: It’s been widely reported both the student’s parents recently died of cancer. It’s the second gaff for Bob Carr, who recently threatened to cut aid to Papua New Guinea only to later back down.
Tom Iggulden, Lateline.
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