Labor’s Kim Carr has announced that he would retire from the Australian parliament at the May election after having been a senator for the state of Victoria since 1993. Senator Carr, who is 66 years old and the longest-serving member of the Australian Senate, said he was not pursuing endorsement for a place on Labor’s Victorian Senate ticket and would conclude his career as a senator when his current term ended on June 30. He said that it had been an immense honour and privilege for him to receive the responsibility of representing the people of Victoria in the Senate. “The Labor Party’s mission to create a fairer Australia never ends, and while I would have liked to have continued to pursue it in the Parliament, issues with my health have made that inadvisable,” Carr said in a statement on March 27. “In light of recent tragic developments and following …