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November 07, 2018 08:10:49
Former Labor Party leader Mark Latham joined One Nation and will run for NSW Parliament.
Key points:
- Mark Latham will run for NSW Parliament and head the One Nation State Branch
- He says that immigration, congestion, overdevelopment and electricity prices will figure in his campaign.
- Mr. Latham has a complicated political history and recently worked as a commentator
Speaking this morning on Alan Jones's 2GB radio program with Pauline Hanson, leader of One Nation, Mr. Latham said he was raising his hand because he thought that NSW voters needed a third choice.
He identified immigration, congestion, overdevelopment and electricity prices among the issues that he would use to campaign.
But Mr Latham also criticized the "politically correct" and the "conflicting identity politics".
"These are all issues that are concentrated in NSW and have not been addressed by the major parties," he said.
"I want to offer people a third choice: say that you can vote for a nation and have practical and sensible solutions to these major problems of our country."
Mr. Latham teased a political comeback for months by telling the media that he had been invited by four parties to consider a race in the Senate.
However, he had previously refused to say he would accept offers of parties that he would not name.
In the Longman byelection, Latham recorded automated calls for One Nation urging people to vote against major parties.
Senator Hanson stated that she was proud to have Mr. Latham on his team.
"These big political parties will not have their way, we will make them work for the citizens of this state," she said.
"We need ideas based on good policies and aimed at getting the state moving."
Mr. Latham said that he was in a stage of his life where he was unable to "sit on the sidelines".
"It's a fight for our values of civilization, for freedom of expression, for merit selection, resilience, love of the country, all besieged from the left", a- he declared.
A complicated political history
Mr. Latham led the Labor Party's unsuccessful election campaign against John Howard in 2004, left politics the following year and swore that he was tired of public life.
However, he returned in 2010 after former prime minister Julia Gillard at the campaign trial as an employee of the Nine Network.
He worked as a columnist for the Australian Financial Review until his departure in 2015 as a result of a series of tweets criticizing various reporters.
Last year, Mr. Latham was fired from Sky News as the host of the Outsiders program after a series of controversial remarks.
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