Bob Carr laments first world problems

FORMER foreign minister Bob Carr likes his breakfast oats steel-cut and his Wagner opera to carry English subtitles.

So his latest book - Diary of a Foreign Minister - could well be subtitled First World Problems.

If the first insights into its contents are any sign, it should be a hoot - especially for frequent flyers.

NewSouth Publishing describes the book - due to hit the bookshelves at the end of April - as the "best picture ever published of a politician on the world stage and Australia's changing place in the world and in our region".

But it is also expected to reveal Bob Carr's multi-faceted personality - eccentric, obsessive, passionate and self-deprecating.

The faults and foibles of air travel feature heavily, according to reports.

In the book Mr Carr publishes a letter from Singapore Airlines responding to complaints he made about inflight entertainment.

"Please accept my sincere apology if any part of our First Class inflight offering fell below your expectations," the letter says.

"Specifically, I have taken note of the lack of English subtitles for the Wagner Opera Siegfried."

The former minister rails against business class travel: "No edible food. No airline pyjamas. I lie in my tailored suit."

On another flight, he blasts the airline for its "ceramic food" and seat design that "owe a lot to the trans-Atlantic slave trade".

On his diet and exercise regime, Mr Carr reveals his favoured breakfast is steel-cut organic oats and berries and two poached eggs.

And his favourite exercise is the "wonderful one-legged Romanian deadlift".

The book will retail at about $50 with proceeds going to Interplast Australia and New Zealand, a not-for-profit organisation which funds and delivers reconstructive surgery on poor children in developing countries.

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