Fed: Hockey says Latham is "short on substance"

AAP General News (Australia)
02-21-2004
Fed: Hockey says Latham is "short on substance"

SYDNEY, Feb 20 AAP - Federal Labor leader Mark Latham was short on substance and long
on rhetoric, federal Tourism and Small Business Minister Joe Hockey said tonight.

Commenting after the first fortnight of parliament in Canberra, Mr Hockey said the
Labor leader was nearing the end of his honeymoon.

"He's come to the end of the honeymoon. It's become apparent to some of the more focused
strategists that in fact Mark Latham doesn't have the substance that he pretends to have,"

he told ABC TV's Lateline.

He said Mr Latham's speech to the …