Mark Latham

Latham’s law

16 May 2020 9:00 am

Turnbull: Adam Bandt in a better suit The problem with reviewing Malcolm Turnbull’s book is where to begin. How about…

Latham’s law

8 May 2020 11:00 pm

Feral Abacus versus Godzilla Paul Keating christened him the Feral Abacus but now John Hewson has become a Doomsday Clock.…

Latham’s law

1 May 2020 11:00 pm

It’s been the Year of Living in Lockdown. First the wretched bushfires smoked us out so badly we had to…

How the Left helps make fake news

1 February 2020 9:00 am

In helping to create the extraordinary growth of the American economy, Donald Trump himself is the subject of an extraordinary…

Latham’s law

3 August 2019 9:00 am

If only all Australians had the same intellectual luxury available to them as the Victorian Labor Premier, Dan Andrews. Earlier…

Latham’s law

27 July 2019 9:00 am

In political history, 2019 will be remembered as the year Labor lost the unlosable election due to wrong-headed tax policies.…

Latham’s law

22 June 2019 9:00 am

Somewhere, most likely in a bunker buried beneath the ABC, there’s a Left-wing laboratory working overtime at inventing new slurs…

The fight of my life

18 May 2019 9:00 am

Mr President, Not far from where you sit, some 10 metres from the entrance to this old chamber, there’s a…

Mark Latham: back in the bullring, uncensored

11 May 2019 6:09 pm

This is the full text of the Maiden Speech of the Hon Mark Latham MLC presented to the New South…

Six sins of Shorten

13 April 2019 9:00 am

The impending federal election will be a referendum on economic policy, the like of which Australia hasn’t seen since 1993.…

Elvis diary

19 January 2019 9:00 am

Everyone, at least once in life, should go to the Elvis Festival in Parkes, Central NSW.The Leftist elites would hate…

Latham’s law

3 November 2018 9:00 am

Sharman Stone is not exactly a household name, not even in her own house. In two decades as a federal…

Latham’s law

27 October 2018 9:00 am

I’ve found a solution to the world’s problems. We need to get David Duke to say the following words: ‘Political…

Latham’s law

20 October 2018 9:00 am

One of the weaknesses in the Australian education system is a lack of understanding of civics. Teaching children the basics…

Latham’s law

13 October 2018 9:00 am

I love a rollicking book of insults as much as the next person. In typical Australian style they lean towards…

Latham’s law

29 September 2018 9:00 am

There’s a surprisingly simple way of ending the malaise in Australian politics. Turn off the fast forward button. Everything is…

Latham’s law

22 September 2018 9:00 am

It’s the iron law of government administration. After a new bureaucracy is established, initially with limited powers and responsibilities, it…

Latham’s law

15 September 2018 9:00 am

‘So where the bloody hell are you?’ Lara Bingle beseeched overseas travellers in Scott Morrison’s successful 2006 television ad. Morrison…

Latham’s law

8 September 2018 9:00 am

Julia Gillard called it hyper-bowl. Last week Niki Savva turned it into an art form when she described the end…

Latham’s Law

1 September 2018 9:00 am

When Matt Damon starred in the movie Downsizing earlier this year, he could not have known he was providing a…

Australian diary

25 August 2018 9:00 am

After my stoush with Graham Richardson on Sky News last month I haven’t been invited back onto the show where…

Latham’s law

18 August 2018 9:00 am

Who would have thought? It turns out Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser were racists. Poor old Gough spent decades in…

Latham’s law

11 August 2018 9:00 am

Just when the health system in inner-Melbourne and Sydney was coming to terms with the psychotic conditions caused by Donald…

Latham’s law

4 August 2018 9:00 am

It was the best news Fairfax ever published: the story of its demise. Yet to listen to the wailing Fairfax…

Latham’s law

28 July 2018 9:00 am

Before his death in July 1826, Thomas Jefferson wrote the epitaph for his own gravestone and insisted it carry ‘not…