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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tamsin Rose and Catie McLeod

Mark Latham removed as One Nation’s NSW leader due to media shunning after homophobic remarks

Mark Latham sitting in the New South Wales parliament
Mark Latham was sacked as NSW One Nation leader over concerns the media was refusing to deal with him after his homophobic outburst, a party source says. Photograph: Nikki Short/AAP

Mark Latham was sacked as the leader of the New South Wales branch of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation after being stonewalled by “mainstream media” following comments he made about fellow parliamentarian Alex Greenwich.

Hanson dumped Latham from the top job last week as part of an intervention to install a new state executive, making herself the temporary leader of the party and its three upper house MPs.

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