Latham and the Dirt Machine

A letter to the editor

Published on August 1, 2004 By Champas Socialist In Politics

This letter was my most published letter. The Aus, Age and SMH all went for it. A few weeks ago Channel Nine's Sunday programme did a "profile on Opposition Leader Mark Latham. It was much hyped beforehand. Supposedly we were going to hear all sorts of things about Latham's past. I watched it and wrote this immediately afterwards..

I tuned in with anticipation for the slaying of Latham on Sunday but I was sorely disappointed.

I awaited figures showing Latham's alleged financial mismanagement in Liverpool. I listened for the evidence he is a violent thug. I watched for the proof of factional rorting.

But all I got was a series of people with long-standing grudges against Latham making baseless, personal accusations. If this is all that's in Latham's closet, then perhaps he should be running the country after all."

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