"Yes, I had concerns about Mr Obeid's son working for the company … yes, I was lobbied, but that's the nature of being premier, people lobby the premier, it doesn't mean they get what they want".
I think it's a question for [premier] Barry O'Farrell, [former premier] Nathan Rees … as well".
Carr, who served as NSW premier for 10 years, entered the Senate and became foreign minister at the request of former prime minister Julia Gillard in March 2012, when Kevin Rudd returned to the backbench after losing a leadership challenge.
The premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the deal demonstrated her support for "responsible and sustainable development" of the port and the Galilee Basin, inland from Bowen in north Queensland.
The foreign affairs ministers had reportedly said they would not actively search for the migrants but on Thursday Malaysia's premier, Najib Razak, ordered the navy and maritime officials to launch a search-and-rescue mission for the boat people.
The NSW Icac, set up by former Liberal premier Nick Greiner, has the standing powers of a royal commission and remains the original and most powerful of any of the state corruption bodies.
Bill Shorten said former New South Wales premier Neville Wran "kept the light on the hill burning brightly for Labor" as it was announced Wran will be given a state funeral.
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His complaint was that the Thatcherites who so brilliantly ousted him from the leadership in 1975, never accorded him the courtesies to which an ex-leader and premier was entitled.
And Western Australian premier Colin Barnett, also a Liberal, said he would never agree to an increase in the GST unless the state's long-standing complaint about GST distribution was addressed.
The Chinese premier stayed away, however, despite close Sino-Pakistani political and military ties that Islamabad regards as its most important international relationship.
