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Captain Wacky or 'The Latham Lessons' : Comments

By Rebecca Huntley, published 6/10/2005

Rebecca Huntley argues 'The Latham Diaries' reveal much about the inner workings of the ALP.

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Wre “Thank God Mark Latham will never be the Prime Minister of this country. The most worrying thing though is that the ALP actually selected Latham as the individual with the greatest ability to lead the party at all.”

Wholly concur

Sneekeepete “Latham has revealed nothing at all about the ALP.”

By electing Latham to leadership – it reveals the labor party is, as well as being the tool of union factions, bereft of ethics, credibility, foresight or any other quality of a redeeming nature.

Sage – yeah – I heard one TV commentator suggest Latham might have been the product of an overprotective mother who, when the infant Mark did something wrong, she would blame it on something else and thus for all the ills which befell her precious prodgeny, the chair or the cat or whatever was to blame. Hence LAtham has adopted the idea that all the “bad things” are to be blamed on others and only “good things” attribute to himself.

Arjay, Button did seem to have some character.
However, he did bring us the “Button Plan” for the motor industry which forced the closure of Nissan manufacturing in Australia as well as a shot-gun marriage of inconvenience between Toyota and Holden (and which had some strange one off financial benefits for Toyota at the expense of Holden).
Posted by Col Rouge, Friday, 7 October 2005 11:25:49 AM
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Ummm, its not only the Labor Party that needs a Fire Hose used on it.

The Liberal Party is long, long overdue for the same treatment!

Mr Latham is not the only person with tales to tell, all the latest sudden shock - its been happening for many years. J Howard is heavily involved too.

Sadly, the people who can genuinely contribute as a Member of Parliament in the main are not attracted to this life,because of the current state of politics State & Federal, they are capable of earning a far greater income.

Agreed, in the main politics for some 25+ years has attracted the dysfunctional in our society, and we pay the price for it.

The Journalists in this Country also need to self-examine themselves and their role in the political world in Australia.
Posted by Pachelbel, Friday, 7 October 2005 12:32:47 PM
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Arjay, Button is just as bad as the rest. While Button was beavering away in his office, 2 doors down was his contemporary Colston who had discovered the 'trough'. In 1983 Colston was carpeted for conducting joy flights for himself and an unauthorised person. Even the federal police investigated Colston for irregularities. The investigation went nowhere because it is a bad career move to be too harsh on an MP. Did Button sponsor an ALP rule to expel any member who abuses the trust of the people? No.

Button's inaction and the inaction of his colleagues condemns the lot of them for allowing anyone to raid the public purse while Mrs Smith can't get a hip replacement operation due to lack of hospital funding.
Posted by Sage, Friday, 7 October 2005 4:55:44 PM
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I am tired of seeing our most valuable idealogical contributions being reduced to party politics.

I see "silo cultures" not just in the departments of Immigration and Health, I see it in all of us while we reduce ourselves to the smutterings of "who is dirt and who is not".

What about some balance. A view that may focus through the person, and back to issues the they stood for.... ie: social capital, building capacity at local level, (say let's try some healthy forms of ) community engagement?

Australia, I believe needs to see the value in people and begin discussion that neutralises the slagging. We seem to have trouble promoting anyones good points.

For example, there are many people I think are too narrow, too old fashioned, too simple, to fundementalist, to racist, to religious, too apathetic, to radical, to mainstream ... whatever.... but let's not totally strip the person. Let's do more to open the kind of communicaton that can discuss issues. We are people, we need social change and that change must come from us.

I see Lathan's loss as a loss to younger generations. Because we (Australians) shoot people down, we also shoot their valuable contributions, the parts that are resourceful and it takes years to get some of these things back on the local agenda.

We are all clumsy, non-perfect. Lathams arguement is with his party, it is also a window to what many of us know to be true in government. I don't see his personal issues as my issues, I give him the right to "speak" any way he can. As I do others, who have grievances. Without this right we are all oppressed.

Let's not contribute yet more "moral chaos", (play two-up merely to a bully side of this political culture)

I am deeply concerned about what we are about to leave behind, in this decade of "mateship" for "fair-go" Australia!

ie: If Latham was wrong about the US_A, then what does that say about Howard and, where does that leave us?
Posted by miacat, Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:26:18 AM
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Latham has tapped into existing discontent with 2 party adversial politics but offers no way forward.

Perhaps Rebecca has some ideas?

If Labor is is suffering from a crisis in belief then it can only blame itself and well before Latham and his Frankenstienish rise to leadership came along, departed and is now capitalising through publication on his own failure to understand this internal party bleeding from the outset.

Bring on a new innovative Left coalition says me. Labor is now just a dead carcus floating in a pool of its own political bloodletting.
Posted by Rainier, Saturday, 8 October 2005 1:08:44 PM
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Rainer,the bulk of the pop has moved away from the ideals of the left.What are you proposing,more tax more socialism? Where are you going to find the votes?
Posted by Arjay, Saturday, 8 October 2005 2:03:45 PM
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