Latham: Odds And Ends

An edited transcript of the Enough Rope interview is now available at The Age website (caveat emptor - it's clearly not a professional job, all the ums and ah's have been left in. While the ABC seem to have employed monkeys chained to typewriters for their transcripts recently, this is far worse).

Meanwhile, Julia Gillard, attending this morning's EOWA event at Darling Harbour, has made undoubtedly the most eloquent and diplomatic statement on the Latham Diaries so far (she would, you might say - she's the one Latham said should be leading the party). Seriously, to give Gillard her due, she performed the extraordinary balancing act of acknowledging the gravity and substance of Latham's allegations, pledging support for both Latham and Beazley, expressing sadness over Latham's decision to release the diaries in the first place, and ruling out a leadership challenge. The text is available at Margo Kingston's webdiary.

Paul Kelly and Michael Harvey's long interview for The Australian is now online and, while it reiterates some of what was in the Enough Rope interview, is still well worth reading.

I might add that it's rich for 2UE's Steve Price to be whinging about Latham giving him a slap for perpetuating the allegations of the existence of a sallacious buck's night video, based on nothing more than a caller to his show who later turned out to be talking bollocks. On what basis are you pissed off, Pricey???