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Mark Latham: The outsider
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Mar 23, 2023 11:46pm |
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| News Date | Friday, August 2, 2019 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | How did a man with such right-wing beliefs become Labor Party leader, and what is he cooking up now?
When I ask Alex Sanchez, who served on Liverpool City Council with Mark Latham, and later worked for him when he was Labor Party leader, what his old friend is like, he pauses. Then: “He’s hilarious. He’s genuinely hilarious …” He also says, “It’s been such a long time since, so I wouldn’t even know what his character is today.”
In Losing It, Annabel Crabb’s account of the years leading up to Latham’s 2004 election loss to John Howard, she recounts his way of dealing with letters that were “racist rants or defamatory attacks”. Latham would write back, “Dear (constituent name), I am afraid you are being impersonated …” |
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