Friday, September 16, 2005
EARTH SCORCHING CONTINUES
Two-faced union bosses? Say it ain’t so, Mark:
In an interview with ABC TV’s Lateline program, which is due to air tonight, Mr Latham accuses [ACTU secretary Greg] Combet and [national secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union Bill] Shorten of privately supporting Australia’s free trade deal with the United States while publicly opposing it to curry favour with their union members.
Add Shorten and Combet to a list that also includes:
* Kim Beazley ("one of the most indecent politicians I have come across")
* Jenny Macklin (“an unbelievable piece of work")
* Jeff Kennett (“an idiot”)
* SMH reporter Damien Murphy (“took it upon himself to [write Latham’s] sexual history)
* Simon Crean
* John Howard (“tried to break a woman’s hand”)
* Paul Keating (“if you have regrets, you will end up like Paul Keating, and I just don’t think that is a healthy state of mind”, “the anti-model”)
* Peter Beattie, Geoff Gallop (“were dancing on my sick bed”)
* Alan Griffin ("inarticulate and unpresentable")
* Lindsay Tanner
* Bob Hawke, Blance d’Alpuget ("Bob and Blanche, what a combination”)
* Bob McMullan
* Kevin Rudd (“a terrible piece of work”)
* Robert Ray, Gary Gray (“involved” in spreading sexual harassment rumours)
* Gough Whitlam (did “mean things” to Latham)
* Stephen Conroy (“failed to support” suicidal Victorian MP Greg Wilton)
* Anthony Albanese
* First wife Gabrielle Gwyther ("biggest mistake of my life”, “she has been on medication and anti-depression medication for a long period of time”)
* Wayne Swan
* Bob Carr (“doesn’t know the difference between Ronald Reagan and Reg Reagan”, “had a secret agenda”)
* Stephen Smith
* Tim Gartrell (ALP national secretary, accused of not being up to the job)
(list incomplete; will be updated)