Bob Carr blogs on protest 'clown'

January 27, 20121

FORMER NSW Labor premier Bob Carr says Canberra's tent embassy should have been packed up years ago.

"The tent embassy in Canberra says nothing to anyone and should have been quietly packed up years ago," Mr Carr wrote in his online blog today.

"The 'activists' who run it would be better off investing time in youth programs in indigenous communities.

"Every government in Australia is aware of its responsibilities to Aboriginal Australians," he said.

Mr Carr criticised the protestors who beseiged Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a Canberra restaurant yesterday resulting in a security scare.

"Prime Minister Gillard is targeted and some clown is shown brandishing her shoe yet she said and did nothing in respect of the tent," he wrote.