Source : Perth Now news
Mark Latham has been served a bankruptcy notice for more than $170,000 while attending the races at Randwick Racecourse on Saturday.
Mr Latham was attending the Golden Eagle at Randwick Racecourse on Saturday afternoon when he was handed a large stack of papers.
Inside the papers was a bankruptcy notice, served by NSW independent MP Alexander Greenwich, who successfully sued Mr Latham in a landmark case at Federal Court for vilification and sexual harassment.
While making a beeline for the exit on Saturday, Mr Latham was approached by a reporter at The Daily Telegraph.
When asked about the contents of the papers, Mr Latham said “Ah, I don’t know what it is, I haven’t looked at it”.
He was pressed about paying Mr Greenwich, but refused to answer any further questions.
“I don’t think that’s any of your business,” Mr Latham said.
“It’s in the hands of my lawyer.”
The amount being chased amounts to $175,000 for court-ordered damages and interest.
The notice, however, does not include the legal costs Mr Latham has been ordered to pay, which is close to $1m, according to The Daily Telegraph.
He has 21 days to pay the outstanding debt.
Failure to pay could mean Mr Latham would be stripped of is assets and income, which would be handed to a trustee tasked with raising the needed funds.
Under the NSW Constitution Act 1902, a member of parliament who “becomes bankrupt or takes the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors” would have to vacate their seat.
Mr Latham later shared details of the notice on X (formerly Twitter), arguing Mr Greenwich was “trying to bankrupt me and drive me from NSW parliament due to my opposition to climate change hysteria and renewables madness”.
“Today, on cue, at Randwick Races (of all places!!) they served a Bankruptcy Notice on me,” he said.
Mr Greenwich launched the action against the former Labor leader over four statements, including a social media post from March 2023 that contained graphic homophobic slurs.
The comments followed Mr Greenwich calling Mr Latham a “disgusting human being” in an article over an event the former Labor leader attended at a church.
In April 2026, Mr Latham was remove mentions of Greenwich from social media and ordered to pay $100,000 in compensation.
On April 30, he pledged to appeal the tribunal’s findings, arguing the ruing was “a woke, leftwing political judgment … and riddled with factual errors”.
“NEAT should be embarrassed and ashamed by what has happened in its grossly political and incompetent handling of this matter, at every level,” he said.
“This ruling cannot be allowed to stand.”
In August, Mr Greenwich loist his bid to have Mr Latham charged with contempt over the series of social media posts.
