23 March 2006

Get off his back


This morning I finished reading
The Latham Diaries and then moved on to the Australian which had this story on page 1.

It was written by Sam Maiden, not one of Latham's favourite reporters (for example see entry for 5 July 2004 at p311), so perhaps Mr Murdoch and his people should replace her on the story with someone who is more detached from its passions. Latham is, as he says, a private citizen. OK, he may belie this by emerging occasionally from his self-imposed internal exile to beat the same drums he banged in his Diaries , but at least to date he's not, as far as I'm aware, accepted any lucrative corporate engagements like Bob Carr and more than a few other former ALP luminaries .





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