Mark Latham

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Latham
Occupation	Former Leader Of The Opposition
Date Of Birth	Feb 28, 1961(1961-02-28)
Age	63
Birthplace	Ashcroft
Country	Australia
Birth City	New South Wales
Horoscope	Aquarius

Mark Latham Biography

Mark Latham is one of the most popular and richest Former Leader Of The Opposition who was born on February 28, 1961 in Ashcroft, New South Wales, Australia. Latham was one of the few Labor party leader to be elected since Frank Tudor in 1917 to not achieve an electoral gain from the government during its first elections. Certain commentators, such as Kim Beazley, said Latham’s leadership was instrumental in saving Labor from a more hefty loss. Beazley stated that polls conducted in the year prior to the election showed that the ALP could fall “25-30 seats” in the House of Representatives. In the end, the party lost net four seats in lower house, with a swing of 0.21 percent. There was an 1.1 percent swing for that of the ALP on the Senate.

Latham began to date the first woman he had married, Gabrielle Gwyther, in

1987. They were wed in 1991. They divorced in 1997 before divorce in the year 1999. Latham got married to his second wife, Janine Lacy, in 2000. They have two sons.

Latham was born in Sydney and studied economics at the University of Sydney. He joined the Labor Party at a young age and worked as a research assistant to Gough Whitlam and Bob Carr. He was elected to the Liverpool City Council in 1987 and became mayor in 1991. Latham entered federal parliament at the 1994 Werriwa by-election. He was included in Labor’s shadow cabinet after the 1996 federal election, but left the frontbench in 1998 following a dispute with the party leader, Kim Beazley. He returned to the shadow cabinet in 2001, when Simon Crean became leader.

Mark Latham also wrote Reviving Labor’s agenda: a program for local reform (Pluto Press / Australian Fabian Society, 1990), What did you learn today?: creating an education revolution (Allen & Unwin, 2001), From the Suburbs: Building a Nation from our Neighbourhoods (Pluto Press Australia, 2003), The Political Bubble: Why Australians Don’t Trust Politics (Pan Macmillan, 2014), Latham at Large (Melbourne University Press, 2015), and Taking Back Australia: Saving Our Country, Our Culture, Our Civilisation (Wilkinson Publishing, 2018).

Latham also proposed strategies to improve the health and education system. Contrary to the arduous staging of his image at the conference Latham increased his visibility through loosely-organized “town hall”-style directly- held meetings across the nation. In the end of March Labor took the leading position against the Coalition in opinion polls and Latham was a leader with a higher personal satisfaction rating than any opposition leader prior to Bob Hawke in 1983. The media began to talk about the possibility that Latham could become the next Prime Minister at the close this year.

Mark Latham Net Worth

Mark Latham is one of the richest Former Leader Of The Opposition from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Latham 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mark William Latham (born 28 February 1961) is an Australian politician from Australia. He is the state president for One Nation in New South Wales since November 2018 and was elected for the Legislative Council at the 2019 state election. He was the previous head of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition between December 2003 and January 2005, guiding the party to lose the 2004 federal elections.

Latham was born in Ashcroft which is a suburb in the south-western part of Sydney located in New South Wales. Latham was educated at Hurlstone Public School; the Hurlstone Agricultural High School, where he was dux and the University of Sydney, where Latham was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Economics with Honors in 1982. While in school, Latham worked at the Green Valley Hotel for 2 years. He also served as an advisor for Labor Politiker John Kerin from 1980 to 1982. After graduating, Latham worked as a research assistant to former Labor premier Gough Whitlam in the years 1982 until 1987. This included working on the book of the former premier The Whitlam Government as well as afterwards as an advisor to the leader of the New South Wales Opposition Bob Carr from 1988 until 1991.

In 1987, he was elected to the Liverpool City Council, in Sydney’s south-west, and was mayor from 1991 to 1994. Latham played rugby union with the Liverpool Bulls club and had a stint as its president. He has also been a fan of St George Dragons rugby league club since 1968.

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Who is Mark Latham Dating?

According to our records, Mark Latham married to Janine Lacey , Gabrielle Gwyther. As of December 1, 2023, Mark Latham’s is not dating anyone.

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Latham has described himself as a humanist. In a 2004 interview he said “I’m agnostic. I think there’s a force, a spiritual world beyond the material. But I’m not in a position to define it, let alone put it into a certain form of religious practice.”

Facts & Trivia

Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Former Leader Of The Opposition. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Mark Latham celebrates birthday on February 28 of every year.

The election was held on 9 October 2004. Although opinion polls showed the ALP leading the government at various stages of the six-week campaign, the government was re-elected with an increased majority. This was despite Latham being generally credited with a strong performance and a victory in the sole campaign debate. In the days after the election, Latham was criticised for releasing many key policies too late, a case in point being Labor’s policy regarding conservation of Tasmanian old growth forests.