{"id":142172,"date":"2025-08-13T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142172\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:46:12","slug":"mark-latham-alex-greenwich-court-hearing-wraps-after-sex-act-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142172\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Latham Alex Greenwich court hearing wraps after sex act tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outspoken former federal Labor<\/a> leader Mark Latham has used a witness box as his pulpit, accusing a left-leaning rival of being unable to take public criticism as he defends a homosexual vilification case.Latham gave evidence to a tribunal<\/a> on Wednesday after being accused of vilification and workplace harassment by NSW<\/a> independent MP Alex Greenwich.<\/p>\n

The case centres on a sexually explicit tweet the Federal Court previously ruled as defamatory and subsequent media appearances made by Latham, who sits as an independent in the NSW parliament’s upper house.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Mark Latham MLC arrives at the John Maddison Tower in Sydney on August 13, 2025. (Dominic Lorrimer)<\/p>\n

The firebrand politician did not hold back in the witness box, delivering a lengthy tirade in which he accused Greenwich of suing to try to silence him and being unable to take criticism.<\/p>\n

“If (Greenwich) has a leak in his roof, he would stomp around his house and say ‘Bloody Latham, bloody Latham’,” he said.<\/p>\n

The former state leader of One Nation delivered his rant after the tribunal let Greenwich tender a tweet sent by Latham.<\/p>\n

The post labelled the tribunal hearing “an absurd proposition” with Latham labelling his previous criticism of Greenwich as “100 per cent true”.<\/p>\n

It was evidence the initial post, sent in 2023, was continuing to cause Greenwich harm, his lawyers argued.<\/p>\n

Latham’s lawyer Zali Burrows earlier tried to tender late evidence, including Latham labelling his rival a “spoilt child” along with other references to his father.<\/p>\n

Senior tribunal member Mandy Tibbey accepted only a limited amount of the affidavit after questioning its relevance, adding: “I don’t really see how this helps your case.”<\/p>\n

The tribunal also knocked back a request by Greenwich’s team to continue updating evidence while preparing final submissions if the alleged harmful tweets continued.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Member for Sydney Alex Greenwich arrives at the John Maddison Tower in Sydney on August 13, 2025. (Dominic Lorrimer)<\/p>\n

Burrows asserted it risked the matter becoming “never-ending”.<\/p>\n

“It is desirable there is a cessation of hostilities between the parties,” Tibbey, the tribunal member, said.<\/p>\n

“Mr Greenwich would very much like it to stop,” his lawyer Prue Bindon said.<\/p>\n

Outside court, Greenwich briefly outlined his desire to move on from the matter, adding he was “really relieved” the two-day hearings were over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outspoken former federal Labor leader Mark Latham has used a witness box as his pulpit, accusing a left-leaning…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-142172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115021059463677827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}