48 Between 30 March 2023 and 31 March 2023, the primary tweet was also covered during news bulletins on national television networks including Nine News, Seven News and Sky News. Relevant audiovisual excerpts of these broadcasts were annexed to Mr Greenwich's first affidavit as exhibit AG-40.
49 In the Sky News program The Bolt Report broadcast on 30 March 2023, journalist Andrew Bolt expressed his condemnation of Mr Latham and the primary tweet, which Mr Bolt described as "so disgusting, so homophobic and so vile in a pornographic way, that [he could] not even hint at what [Mr Latham] said about a gay politician, Alex Greenwich". The Bolt Report then broadcast a video recorded by the Federal leader of One Nation, Senator Pauline Hanson, in which she responded "to the comments made today by Mark Latham on social media", and said, among other things, that she didn't "condone them and neither do [her] members of parliament or party associates" and that she thought the comments were "disgusting". Senator Hanson also stated that she had asked Mr Latham to apologise to the public.
50 Mr Latham did not do so. On 31 March 2023 at 9:31pm he posted the following tweet:
Mark Latham tweet about "never apologise, never explain".
