In this frank and insightful discussion held subsequent to the NSW state election, Mark Latham talks to host Robert Manne about the state of the Labor party, in both its state and federal incarnations. Latham demonstrates again that he's one of the country's most perceptive critics of the Labor party, and an unfailingly interesting commentator on Australian politics generally, as he analyses Labor's seeming lack of direction; the organisational problems that have emerged from NSW and now affect the federal party; the ALP's relationship with the Greens; and its inability to convince a jaded electorate that the party leadership believes in the large reforms that Latham says are a crucial component of a healthy Labor program.

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