When he’s not hanging out in a box at Royal Randwick, the permanently embittered Mark Latham is taking potshots against his numerous enemies from behind the shield of parliamentary privilege. There is literally no other reason for him to be an MP. Among the latest targets for Latham’s increasingly intemperate sprays has been shock jock Ray Hadley, who never shied away from delivering a verbal barrage during a lengthy career that comes to an end next month.
Radio personality Ray Hadley and NSW politician Mark Latham. Credit: SMH On Thursday, Hadley hit back. Rather spectacularly.
On his 2GB morning show, he began by reading our colleague Alexandra Smith’s column documenting some of Latham’s recent antics, before delivering some allegations of his own. “I’ve refrained from commenting on the vile attack on me under parliamentary privilege. “I don’t have the luxury of that privilege to share any number of stories about Latham’s personal life and his apparent hatred of homosexuals.
” Latham has also had a few cracks at Hadley’s son Daniel, who quit the NSW Police after having a cocaine charge against him dismissed. He’s now at Racing NSW, another body with which Latham has a grievance. “As a man, my son would buy and sell a lowlife like Latham every day of the week,” a fired-up Hadley said on air.
“My son is not a coward that seeks to vilify people in parliamentary chambers where he would be protected. “His courage in dealing with dark, dark days mak.
