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Latham's US views 'not unique'

23sep05

ONE in five Labor Party candidates at the last federal election believed the United States was a threat to Australian security, a new study has showed.

The research by Australian National University and Queensland University of Technology found 21.9 per cent of ALP candidates said the US was a "very likely" or "fairly likely" threat to Australia, placing it above China, Vietnam or Malaysia, The Australian newspaper reported today.
Thirty-one per cent of ALP candidates said they had little or no trust in the US coming to Australia's defence, and one in five said they were either not very proud, or not at all proud, to be Australian.

Former Labor leader Mark Latham, who has just released his controversial book, The Latham Diaries, was widely criticised by conservatives for being anti-American.

When asked in the study about US President George Bush, 91.5 per cent of Labor candidates said they disliked him, with 60.9 per cent strongly disliking him, the paper said.