Libs laughing after Latham's Labor lashing

Well, won't the government be rubbing their hands together with all the publicity of the Latham Diaries in the media? His interview with Andrew Denton was hastily pushed forward to last night, with fears that it would already be old news by next Monday.

Latham's not shy of a snaky word about the flailing Labor Party, and it couldn't have come at a better time for the Howard government.

Here’s a few of Latham’s quotes from the front page of yesterday’s Australian:

- ‘My commitment to the Labor cause was destroyed by the bastardry of others’
- ‘I no longer regard Labor as a viable force for social justice in this country.’
- ‘...[Labor’s] massive cultural and structural problems are insoluble.’
- ‘Rudd is a terrible piece of work... never listen to Rudd on foreign policy... he’s addicted to it [the media spotlight], worse than heroin’

Hardly a great advocate of the political party he previously led, is he?

Interestingly, the front page of The Australian, along with two columns on Mark Latham by editor Paul Kelly, also fashioned an article about the Telstra deal getting the nod from the National party. Is there a little political agenda being pushed here, Paul?