Mark Latham says that about every one.
He is/was/and always will be a fraud.
I have spoken about briefly falling under his spell.
Long before he took the leadership.
His home page was of great interest.
I followed his road trip for a short time after he took the leaders roll.
He soon showed me he was that fraud.
At 8am election morning, haveing set up a polling booth in redneck country, at 6am.
I went to the National party Captain ,congratulated her on a massive landslide to come.
And left young up wardly mobile ALP folk to the dreams of victory.
Latham /Gillard/Crean,three peas in a pod, each using the other two,all backed by Fitzgibbon.
Took the ALP to its black hole.
One we may inhabit again.
But only a conservative would still wish to use any of these three slugs against the whole.
LIES? Abbott has that under control he can beat her in that too.

The GST was an admirable act from JH. Although he lied through his gills on most things as do most pollies, he brought a reform that was not popular while almost being defeated in the election (Beazely got a greater percentage of the vote but not of seats).

Frankly, I don't care if Labor gets a shellacking for being unpopular, as long as needed reforms are in place and too difficult to unscrammble. Popularity is a shallow reason to be re-elected, and that's the path Rudd would take Labor down. It's the path the Coalition will follow, but I do question whether subsidizing nannies and other childcare policies supporting the wealthy are that popular, just my feeling.