LATHAM'S LASTING LEGACY

I feel that when watching anything that has been broadcast from Parliament House, for example, Question Time, doorstop interviews, etceteras, that it is a bit like watching an unscripted super series of a cross between South Park and Groundhog Day.
The puerile behavior of the members in any parliamentary scenario sends my blood cold. The set questions of the ruling party answered in detail we don’t need and the answers to opposition questions designed to not answer the questions beggars belief. And for that, in expectation of somehow participating, we pay lots of dollars.
The system has been a caricature for some time now, but like Asian flu the threat of terrorism has left our normally disinterested population suffering from an unhealthy overdose of the jingoism that is Australian politics.
Latham’s interviews belied a man that had seriously had enough of playing the political game. We all say we know politicians can’t be trusted, that they rank very low on the social esteem register. So why are we surprised that a bloke who believes he has been tromped over by his own political machinery wants to vent his spleen in their direction?
Latham damning Labour equally disdains the Liberals and sends out a message to us all, fix the system! Watching Kerry O’Brien’s interview on Lateline, Mark was straight up disconnected from the circus and backing himself and his family and as much as I have loved the ideals of the party I believe it has run it’s race.