Thoughts - Latham's Comments

I've just finished watching Mark Latham's comment on Enough Rope and a few thought's come to mind.

1. He clearly wasn't up to it. A lot of what he discussed was no real surprise, and I would have thought him a little niave to think it would be any different. Which makes the question put by Andrew all the more telling - "why run for leader"? Was he depressive? He certainly had mood swings - big swings. So perhaps he just wasn't leadership material.

2. That said, his closing comments were so empathetic to my own. He said that he really worried as Australian's rushed to be "materialistic and individualistic" and how that is killing the Australia we all love.

And yet, it is this feeling that I think many of us reflect - even the Nat's (perhaps particularly so) and disappoints me that he has nothing to offer in this regard. Are there solutions? Ummm, gee can I think of any? Well, there has to be and that's something I'll be putting my thoughts to in coming weeks.

Meanwhile, have we kissed the next election goodbye? Actually, an interesting thought - could the government rushed out Telstra to get out ahead of this mess? Who has most to gain though? There's no elections looming and it'll all blow over in a month or three. Actually, there may even be a degree of sympathy voting??? I doubt it somehow...