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Save us from former Party leaders – particularly if they’ve got a memoir to spruik.

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Former Labor leader Mark Latham has been suffering from relevance deprivation syndrome for years now. I was one of those dopes who admired him when he bounced onto the political scene – thirsty for someone with a bit of personality, a break from the beige. He railed against the ‘new political correctness’; he was a boofhead with a penchant for biffo, but he was fun.

Now he’s really jumped the shark and joined the conga line of suckholes who studied Post-Politics PR 101. The main rule of PPPR101 is simple: Court confected outrage at every opportunity.

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  • Ulysses Elias says:

    04:04pm | 07/04/11

    All you have to do to parent a child is ovulate or ejaculate. Any random moron can become a parent. If Latham has kids then the only difference between him and Gillard is that he has spawn to embarrass whereas Gillard only embarrasses herself. Read more »

  • regn says:

    03:16am | 07/04/11

    An observation of Gillard’s personality and empathy as a result of choosing not to share her life with children and to base that choice on a carreer having a higher priority is a valid point. The comments supporting and disputing Latham’s observation by parents and non parents demonstrate it is… Read more »

 

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