![]() ![]() Latham maintains he never broke the law when he tackled the taxi driver, who he claims ran off with his bag. He is then alleged to have tackled the taxi driver, who was left with a broken arm after the incident. In 2001, Latham had a verbal stoush with a taxi driver over a fare charge. The bizarre confrontation saw Latham a 'bully' - a tag that has stuck with him in the year's since. Latham came under-fire for an aggressive handshake with his opposition John Howard as they met on the eve of the election.īursting out from behind a closed door, he gripped Howard's hand and brought his face within centimetres of his counterpart's. Perhaps the most infamous incident involving Latham took place during the 2004 federal election, when he was still leader of the Labor party. ![]() Mark Latham celebrated Trump's election victory in 2016 by wearing a MAGA hat on breakfast television (pictured). He channeled the former President in a tweet repeating a motto of Donald Trump (pictured): Never apologise, never explain His time at Sky News also saw fellow host US-born Kristina Keneally lodge a formal complaint against him for describing her as a 'Yankee sheila'.ĪBC presenter Wendy Harmer, who was born with a cleft lip and double cleft palate, also wrote a legal letter of complaint to Sky News against Latham after he described her as a 'female with a disability' and a 'proven commercial failure'.Īnd Latham was criticised for dismissing the Reserve Bank of Australia's women promotion drive as appointing people solely on the basis of the 'shape of their genitalia'. Latham referred to the teenagers in the video as 'd***heads' while appearing on the Outsiders program in March of that year, adding: 'I thought the first guy was gay.'īacklash to his comments was swift and within two weeks Sky News chief executive officer Angelos Frangopoulos confirmed Latham had been sacked as a commentator for the channel. The stoush with Mr Greenwich isn't even his first brush with homophobia, after he came under fire six years ago for directing an alleged homophobic comment to a student from Sydney Boys High School who featured in a video celebrating feminism. He has been beset with controversies during his career - including this moment during the 2004 federal election where he gave his rival John Howard a very aggressive handshake ![]()
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