Former NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham has lost a defamation case brought against him by independent MP Alex Greenwich over a tweet Greenwich called “defamatory and homophobic”.
The quickly deleted tweet from March 2023 was described as “disgusting” by One Nation federal leader Pauline Hanson. Latham was eventually sacked as the party’s NSW leader in August 2023.
Greenwich claimed in the Federal Court case that the tweet implied he “engages in disgusting sexual activities”, and secondly that it implied he was “not a fit and proper person to be a member of the NSW Parliament because he engages in disgusting sexual activities”.
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