Sometimes, we suspect the only thing keeping former Labor leader Mark Latham in the NSW upper house is the ability to say nasty things about his numerous enemies under the protection of parliamentary privilege.
Unlike, say, Rosehill, where an alleged expletive-laden tirade against an Australian Turf Club executive saw the MP narrowly escape losing his membership, parliament is a safe space for Latham to say whatever he likes.
Is Mark Latham Macquarie Street’s most prodigious recipient of free sporting tickets and corporate box seats? Credit: Janie Barrett
But we reckon he loves the freebies. Latham, who after a bitter political divorce with Pauline Hanson now sits in the Legislative Council as an independent, is Macquarie Street’s most prodigious recipient of free sporting tickets and corporate box seats from his many friends.
Sometimes, in the instance of former Tennis pro Mark Philippoussis, whom Latham said took him to Wimbledon in 2023, those friends deny ever indulging Latham (Philippoussis said he never bought Latham tickets and that the pair weren’t friends).
But the gifts that show up with the regularity of London buses on Latham’s parliamentary disclosures are always interesting.
This week, documents tabled in parliament revealed that the
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