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Mark Latham is one of the greatest Prime Ministers Australia never had; unpredictable, brilliant, personable, closer to the electorate and the common aspirations of the Australian people than almost any prominent politician before or since. He was roundly defeated by conservative Prime Minister John Howard in 2004, and left politics the following year, crushed both by the internal complexities, hypocrisies and multiple incompetencies of the Labor Party; and by his own sometimes difficult personality. Latham at Large is an entertaining, thought-provoking, sometimes scathing, often humorous collection from a man who is not afraid to speak his mind. There is no one else like Mark Latham in Australian public life.
By his own admission Latham is the most outspoken, rebellious, thoroughly uncontrollable former leader in Labor Party history. He has been scathing of the lack of intellectual underpinning of the social democratic experiment in the 21st Century; and particularly scathing of the “empty” years of Kevin Rudd’s Prime Ministership; a man he dismissed as a once in a century egomaniac. The ultra-orthodoxies of political correctness which have overtaken much of Australian discourse and his party’s adoption of everything from the anti-father bias inherent in his party’s adoption of feminist theories on the family to its embrace of the anti-materialistic anti-Western rhetoric of extreme green environmentalism, so at odds with the aspirations of most of its traditional followers and most certainly at odds with the lifestyles of its senior party members, have all come under attack during his tempestuous, sometimes erratic career.
Latham at Large pulls together some of the most vitriolic and insightful opinion pieces published in the Australian media; he pulls no punches as he scrutinises the Australian political landscape, looking at everything from climate change to Clive Palmer, to what went wrong with Rudd/Gillard/Rudd and what’s now wrong with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Beyond politics, he dabbles in his other great interests, such as critiquing the modern media and explaining his fascination with horse racing. His hilarious ‘Henderson Watch’ columns and other satirical writing also feature in this volume.
Latham has a formidable intellect and a forensic ability to get to the bottom of things. This is an entertaining, thought-provoking, sometimes scathing, often humorous collection from a man who is not afraid to speak his mind. There is no one else like him in Australian public life.
Mark Latham was the Federal Member for Werriwa in Western Sydney from 1994 to 2005, becoming Leader of the Labor Party in 2003. Since leaving politics, he has been a columnist for the Australian Financial Review and worked on radio and television as a political commentator. He is the author of nine other books, including The Latham Diaries(2005) and The Political Bubble (2014).
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Mark Latham is one of the greatest Prime Ministers Australia never had; unpredictable, brilliant,