Latham’s comments triggered death threats against Sydney MP, court told

Former NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham triggered a wave of abuse including death threats against Sydney MP Alex Greenwich when he posted a tweet playing on offensive stereotypes about gay men, the Federal Court has heard.after Latham, an independent MP in the NSW upper house, posted and deleted a highly graphic and offensive comment on Twitter, now X, on March 30.

Collins showed the court a series of posts on Twitter, now X, by Latham in February last year, published before the tweet at the centre of the defamation suit. Collins said the situation escalated “rather seriously” on March 21 last year, four days before the state election, when Latham spoke at a Catholic church in Belfield about what he called “religious freedom, parental rights, school education and protecting schools from Alphabet Activism”., Collins said. He said Latham had repeatedly referred to Greenwich in an interview on March 22 and “got his facts completely wrong” by accusing him of instigating a violent protest.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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