Enough Rope Latham interview transcript

Enough Rope went to air last night with the interview and here is the transcript: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1461537.htm. The show will be replayed on Monday, and the Lateline interview with Tony Jones that has divided the ABC will show tonight, Friday, Sept 16.

After chatting with some colleagues, me thinks he does really have something to say in and the vitriol on a human level may mean he just wasn’t cut out for the duplicity of politics. In the interview he says he is a full-time at-home dad, and being a dad of two young boys myself, I can say it is probably harder and more rewarding than working life.

My other thought was that perhaps his self-imploding was a resulty of the party coming unglued after the election loss. Seems pretty weak to have done so as give the strangth of the economy and general prosperity, as the SMH wrote today, it did not do too badly.

The standfirst to the interview reads:

Mark Latham

In December 2003, Mark Latham became the youngest leader of the federal Labor party in over a century. Thirteen months later after a leadership marked by flashes of brilliance, personal controversy and illness, he quit politics altogether, having led Labor to one of the worst defeats in the party’s history. Since his resignation in January he has said not one word in public, until now.

Tonight on the eve of the publication of his diaries, diaries which are truly explosive Mark Latham has decided to break his silence.