Helena Carr is an Australian businesswoman and the wife of former Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr. As of 2004, she had extensive holdings in Australian printing corporations, making her a millionaire.
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She was born in Malaysia, the youngest of six children. In 1965, she came to Sydney to study at Our Lady of Mercy College, Parramatta. As economics was one of her strongest subjects, she majored in economics at the University of Sydney.
In 1972, she met Bob Carr on a vacation in Tahiti and the two were married on 24 February 1973.
Bob Carr became Federal President of Young Labor shortly after. Helena Carr started a successful business career and by the 1980s, she was the Managing Director of Leigh Marden, a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Amatil managing a thousand staff. In 1992, her bid to buy Offset Alpine for a sum approaching A$15 million was unsuccessful, losing out to a syndicate headed by Rene Rivkin.
She and Max Turner later bought Merritt Madden Printing and Advanced Graphics, a high-quality commercial printer producing prospectuses, annual reports, and trade magazines. In October 2004, she and Turner sold the business to the New Zealand company Blue Star Print Group and she became a multi-millionaire as a result.
Helena Carr kept a low political profile with the exception of the 2003 state election where she appeared in advertisements for her husband.
In August 2005, Bob Carr resigned as Premier after consulting Helena.