‘Can’t let the haters win’: Alex Greenwich on the biggest battle of his career
For Sydney MP Alex Greenwich, a highly explicit tweet attacking his sexuality was just the start of a long period of sustained online hate, death threats and self-doubt. For a public figure who had fought, and won, high-profile policy battles, Greenwich was facing his far biggest struggle. Greenwich has spoken publicly for the first time with gay magazine DNA about his mental health challenges in the aftermath of the graphic and homophobic 2023 tweet by rogue MP Mark Latham, details of which the Herald has not repeated. But that tweet, which the Federal Court found had defamed Greenwich, was just the beginning of a difficult two years for the MP. At times, he wondered whether he could keep doing his job. He has received death threats, which police believe to be credible, and his office has been inundated with hate mail. At the same time, Latham has never apologised for the tweet.