CANBERRA OBSERVED: Latham in denial over election loss*

The Labor Party appears to be falling into the cycle of many parties languishing in long-term opposition – it is spending its energies fighting the last election campaign rather than the next one.Worse still, under the leadership of Mark Latham, Labor’s brains trust seems to have identified the wrong issues from its failed campaign to indulge in over the coming term.While it is early days and the searing and historic loss will take some time to percolate through the minds of the senior ALP playe…

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