Latham Ordered to Pay $100,000 Over Online Tweet About Alex Greenwich

A tribunal has found a 2023 tweet by the former federal Labor leader amounted to unlawful sexual harassment and imposed the maximum available penalty.

Mark Latham speaks in the NSW Upper House in Sydney, Australia on Sept. 24, 2019. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images

Former federal Labor leader Mark Latham has been ordered to pay a fellow state MP the maximum available penalty for vilifying him for his sexuality.

The 65-year-old will be forced to pay Alex Greenwich $100,000 after a tweet directed at him was found to be unlawful sexual harassment.