Belly I know it's too far back & inconvenient to remember the WA Labor govt which gambled & lost the Superannuation of so many pensioners. I bet these people who have to struggle on must be feeling very simplistic. I have said many times & I stand by this that you have to be cruel to be kind but Labor managed to put a new meaning to that.

I watched Mark Latham on 60 minutes last night
and if you didn't know his background you'd
think what he presented was quite reasonable.
He seemed to be trying to appear even-handed.
However, knowing who he is and what he's done
in the past, I couldn't help wonder why he's
doing what he's doing now?

Surely the gracious thing would be once you've
decided to leave politics, to simply stay out
of it, instead of trying to paint the Party
you've supported all those years in such a
negative light, especially just prior to an
election. It does smack of vindictiveness.
Especially when he closed with telling people
they didn't have to vote, that he wasn't going
to vote, that his was going to be a "protest"
vote and that others could follow suit.
A case of sour grapes - it would seem.

I agree Foxy. Latham still looks and behaves like an angry man. I can understand his anger particularly with Rudd but he had so much to offer, but ego got in the way of principles.

Foxy, Pelican, I don’t think that Latham’s past is important. What is important is the message that he is now communicating.

<< Especially when he closed with telling people
they didn't have to vote, that he wasn't going
to vote, that his was going to be a "protest"
vote and that others could follow suit. >>

He’s got a very good point. At last someone else is saying what lone-voiced Ludwig has been prattling on about for yonks – don’t vote for either of the two big buggers if you feel that neither of them deserves your vote. Don’t vote on the basis of the slightly lesser of two evils!

Latham is not stepping out of line with this sort of message. All those who are upholding the message that you’ve got to vote for either Lib or Lab, or at least put them in your preferences where one of them will end up getting your vote, and that a null vote is wasted vote, are the ones speaking out of line.

We have the perfect democratic right to vote for no candidate. If it is deliberate, then it is NOT a wasted vote! It is only a wasted vote if it is an accidental nullification of your ballot paper.

I think that Mark Latham should be congratulated for stepping up and being heard and saying things that need to be said that no one else with the media’s attention has dared to say.

Dear Ludwig,

I understand what you're saying, but as my
father used to tell me:

"Even a bird doesn't poop in its own nest!"

Although he also said,

"You can't expect as much from a sparrow as
an eagle..."

Latham is obviously not an eagle.

Sorry Ludwig Latham has an issue few truly understand.
I remember followed the bloke he convinced himself he was to be PM even on the very morning he faced that landslide against him, his bitterness is against every one.
He is of no value.
now Indy sorry but my interest in politics is two sides under over and around not one sided bile.
I Will let you play in your sand box with this final message.
You are as often quite wrong as you are right.
And I will look elsewhere for ideas on how this country can improve I DO understand Labor has much to make up, will be first to complain if they let us down but I and Australia are not going to trust Abbott.