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61 Mr Latham posted a number of tweets promoting the TNT Radio interview. The interview was also reported in the news media in articles published on 27 and 28 April 2023, including by The Daily Mail Australia, OUTinPerth, The Star Observer, The Guardian Australia and Q News.

62 Also on 27 April 2023, Mr Latham "liked" a tweet posted by a Twitter user which said "Stick your apology up your ass".

63 On or about 28 April 2023, Mr Latham published a tweet which said "I must be wonderfully Deplorable if Chris Minns wants to cancel me but he's attending Kyle Sandilands wedding tomorrow, complete with organised crime figures and a convicted drug smuggler as best man!! Kyle has 'picked on' the disabled and Alphabet people even more than me [crying laughing emoji]".

64 On the same day, Mr Latham replied to this tweet with a comment which said "Where's Greenwich when you need him?"

65 On 2 May 2023, NSW politician Ms Abigail Boyd posted on Twitter a link to a Sydney Morning Herald article entitled, "NSW opposition leader vows to work with Latham despite homophobic slurs".

66 Also on 2 May 2023, Mr Latham posted a tweet in response to Ms Boyd's tweet which said "I'm very sorry for saying I hate the idea of having anal sex with another man. Has it become compulsory?"

67 On the same day, Mr Latham posted a second tweet in response to Ms Boyd's tweet which said "The Left has sexualised politics particularly through the predominance of LGBTQIAP+ issues. But of course, in the media double standard that applies, no one from the Right should ever participate in these debates and give their true opinion. We are lesser, disgusting human beings."

68 Later on 2 May 2023, Mr Latham "liked" comments in reply to first tweet in response to Ms Boyd, including the following:

(a) "Well done M.L.";
(b) "100% agree. So does most of society just quietly", enclosing a photograph of text which read:
Put 100 women and 10 men on a deserted island. In 100 years, you will have

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