It is more like the power brokers of the Labour party want to forget him rather than the citizens of Australia.

Media and his peers have done the majority of his labelling and questions of his mental stability.

Which is usually their style of a smear and denouncement campaign questioning his thought processes.

Mark Latham exposed the real life scenarios of our fat cats on capital hill, who get too much money to think about themselves and create dramas that justifies their existence to themselves.

And infect the rest of us.

Once every word Latham wrote on his web page or spoke was heard over and again in my home.
Wrongly I thought he was the man to unite Australia and my party.
Long before his election wreck it was clear he never was, in fact the landslide defeat was in sight as the only outcome if you cared to look.
One thing is true no leftist controled ALP will ever rule Australia , and no party calling for retreat from Iraq or any international force will ever win an election.
While asleep the electorate is unlikely to agree with isolationism.
The next new Leader of the ALP will be prime minister Latham never could have been.
Those who gave him a chance have much to answer for.

I cannot believe the support for Latham so far in some of the above posts- Have some of you mixed up Chris Latham the rugby player for Mark Latham the politician perhaps??!! Usually most topics are capable of being debated either way but Mark Latham was openly an incompetent, infantile lunatic straight from the ALP's asylum for failed golden children.

How could one possibly admire him? It wasn't his colleagues who did the damage to his reputation- Latham did a pretty good job of that himself. He never denied the accusations of domestic violence levelled at him by his first wife. Nor did he deny attacking a taxi driver and his associated alcohol abuse. He tried to deny his inability to balance the books at Liverpool Council but the evidence was there for all to see.

More worrying were the positions he was open about. His disdain for the US- a position that no matter where one sits must be dealt with at least practicality and sensitivity (conga of suckholes and worst President ever aren't exactly diplomatic). He had no idea how to deal with Asia either and took no notice of Rudd for personal reasons. His embracing of Brownies' Greens was cringe material-um yes they are healthy opposition but hardly balance of power material.

I think the last election results showed Australians to be far less apathetic in relation to politics than I thought- I don't think a more resounding message could have been delivered to Latham and other far left ALP 'offspring'. As for the allegations that the LIBS have similar waste running around in cabinet, I can count at least 5 MP's/ Senators capable of being future Prime Ministers (Costello, Abbott, Minchin, Nelson, Turnbull). Rudd is about the only ALP candidate-and he should have been a liberal anyway

If any one of those ignorant, insensitive poltroons ever become PM of my country, I'm out. Don't criticise Latham because he was honest. He was a human, like every one of us, and I for one can relate to that. It isn't a criticism in my book.

The Australian voter didin't vote because of dislike, they voted out of fear. Fear of positive change, fear of taking a chance to make the country better, fear of immigrants, fear of god-damn everything.

Abbott? The mad monk. Give it a rest.

Nelson?!! RAINMAN?!! Not even the people who voted for Howard deserve that. Or as the man himself would say - 'not even 13.7 per cent of the proportion of the electorate which allocated its primary vote or its first preference to the government, on a two-party preferred aggregate swing of 2.2 per cent, which if disaggregated on a seat by seat basis can rise as high as 21.97 per cent, of whom 34.9 per cent bought a new pair of shoes in the previous month and if they didn't it's all the Labor government's fault, deserve that'.