Mark Latham’s sexually explicit texts from the floor of parliament revealed
Just days after Mr Latham warned he had ‘scores of documents’ disproving her allegations of abuse, multiple intimate text messages have been leaked to the media.
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Leaked texts have laid bare the breakdown in Mark Latham’s relationship with his ex-lover Nathalie Matthews, the couple’s habit of graphic sexting exchanges about sex acts while Parliament was sitting and the use of tracking devices to find a “f*ck parlour.”
Just days after Mr Latham warned he had ‘scores of documents’ disproving her allegations of abuse, multiple intimate text messages have been leaked to the media.
Businesswoman Nathalie Matthews has told news.com.au that she did not leak her text exchanges with Mr Latham but confirmed she had provided her phone to NSW police.
Ms Matthews has sought an AVO from police but the matter is yet to be heard. Mr Latham denies the allegations and has not been charged with any criminal offence.
The texts, first published by The Daily Telegraph are sexually charged and graphic.
In one text exchange on February 20 at 11:06 am, the former Labor leader writes, “Master’s c**k needs relief too. Very hard thinking about you.”
The 64-year-old follows up with a series of emojis including a purple eggplant and a tongue. “Haven’t c*m in days,’’ he writes.
“Lots of c**k tension.” The messages continue throughout the day with Mr Latham referencing parliamentary work around 8pm.
“Made it back for the first vote after dinner,’’ he writes. “I needed that. You’re amazing.”
In the same exchange Ms Matthews, 37, writes, “You are quite amazing. My Dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin.”
Mr Latham has labelled her allegations of coercive control as “comically false and ridiculous” in a post on his X social media account.
“As the old saying goes, Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” the post said.
“The story says that Ms Matthews went to the police and they did not do anything. They certainly haven’t contacted me. In the current environment, that says a lot.”
In October, the pair discuss tracking devices. “Update your tracker,’’ Mr Latham writes.
“Where’s tracker? Please follow instructions. Send tracker so I can find this f*ck parlour.”
But the breakdown between the pair is also detailed in more recent messages after the relationship turned sour.
“The heinous monster I saw and that physically attacked me that Tuesday night is responsible for any heart issues you might have,’’ Mr Latham writes on June 6.
“Yes, I imploded on the person I love the most due to various external factors, and I never recall a physical attack,’’ Ms Matthews responds.
“I reported the attack on me and the other threats you made that night to parliamentary security, as I am obliged to do,’’ Mr Latham says.
“I have also had to see a doctor for the shakes I’ve had since that nightmarish night, and he advised the same thing.
“You obviously don’t understand what you did, drunk, covered in mud, a monster screaming.”
Mr Latham has defended his taxpayer-funded sexting sessions conducted on the floor of NSW Parliament with his ex-lover .
After the release of hundreds of leaked text messages including sexual messages sent at the same time as he was sitting in Parliament, Mr Latham has insisted it never impacted his work.
“I don’t think responding to a consensual partner on a private, intimate matter in any way has reduced my workload, which I would match up against any other member in the place,” he said.
Mr Latham toldThe Daily Telegraph that his ex-lover would send sexts when Parliament was sitting that required “a response.”
Mr Latham declined to describe the messages the pair exchanged out of “an abundance of caution about revenge porn laws.”
Mr Latham took to twitter late on Tuesday night, claiming the text messages that were leaked to the media were “not accurate”.
“The Daily Telegraph this evening has reproduced a log of messages between me and Nathalie Matthews. They are not accurate. I dont know who, but someone has made changes in very important ways,” he wrote.
Proposal revelations
Lovestruck Mr Latham proposed marriage to his ex-lover Ms Matthews before she accused him of degrading sexual acts and alleged a pattern of abusive behaviour.
Despite Mr Latham describing the relationship as “a situationship”, friends of the former couple have revealed the relationship was serious.
In fact, they insist that the former Labor leader proposed to the businesswoman and Liberal Party supporter on May 23, 2024 at the acclaimed Italian restaurant Otto in Sydney.
But Ms Matthews has now alleged that Mr Latham asked her to call him “master” and engaged in degrading sexual acts, allegations detailed in a shocking apprehended violence application.
She has alleged that he defecated on her before sex, took intimate images and threw a plate at her – allegations Mr Latham strongly denies.
News.com.au does not suggest the claims are true, only that they have been made in an application to the NSW Local Court in pursuit of an AVO.
Mr Latham separated from his second wife Janine Lacy, a local magistrate, and the mother of his children, in September, 2022 after over twenty years of marriage.
He divorced his first wife Gabrielle Gwyther in 1999.
Mark Latham denies ‘degrading’ sex acts’
Mr Latham, 64, who is a New South Wales Legislative Council member, has issued an emphatic denial about the claims, telling The Australian newspaper – that first broke the story – that the allegations were untrue.
“The claims you’ve listed there are absolute rubbish,” Mr Latham said.
“Comical in fact.
“Nothing has been served on me nor has anyone contacted me.
“I haven’t had anything to do with her (Ms Matthews) since 27 May, so nearly seven weeks ago. I ended the ‘situationship’ that night for very good reason.”
In late 2023, it was a different story with Mr Latham gushing over his new girlfriend on social media.
“So much looking forward to The Everest this Saturday at Royal Randwick,” Mr Latham’s post read.
“A beautiful trophy designed by the great Nic Cerrone, made even more spectacular by being photographed with @nathaliemaymatthews.”
In another post, the loved-up couple cuddled at the Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, in Sydney’s west.
“Great day of racing at Rosehill with the Town Crier and the very beautiful Nathalie Matthews,” the caption on the post read, followed by an emoji with heart eyes.
NSW police contact
NSW police sources say officers who initially interviewed Ms Matthews did not believe there was sufficient evidence to proceed with charges or an apprehended violence order on the information they were given.
They remain open to taking a further, more comprehensive statement.
They again spoke to her as recently as Monday and will continue to seek a comprehensive statement.
‘Degrading’ sexual acts alleged
Ms Matthews, 37, is seeking an order preventing Mr Latham from going within 100m of her, alleging an “ongoing, reasonable fear of harassment, intimidation, and potential harm”.
“Throughout our relationship, the defendant engaged in a sustained pattern of emotional, physical, sexual, psychological, and financial abuse, including defecating on me before sex and refusing to let me wash,’’ the application states.
“Forcing degrading sexual acts, pressuring me to engage in sexual acts with others, demanding I call him “master,” telling me I was his property, and repeatedly telling me that my only value to him was for sex to demean and control me.”
News.com.au does not suggest the claims are true, only that they have been made in an application to the NSW Local Court in pursuit of an AVO.
In the application, she stated that on May 27, 2025, Mr Latham arrived at her home at some time in the evening after sending her “abusive and coercive text messages, pressuring and insulting me for not being home with him”.
After she returned home later that evening, she alleged he was verbally aggressive and intimidating before leaving.
‘Monster’ texts revealed
Shortly after, she alleged he sent further threatening and coercive messages, falsely accusing her of aggression, calling her a “monster,” and stating he had gone to his GP to create a record claiming distress and that he had approached Parliamentary Security – given he is currently a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
In June, she stated she was in the Middle East for several weeks. Ms Matthews owns an e-commerce global logistics firm based in Dubai, Perth and Sydney.
But upon her return, the application stated she had been in “a constant state of fear and hypervigilance due to the defendant’s pattern of harassment and intimidation following previous separations”.
She also alleged instances of physical violence in the application including “pushing me against walls, forcing me out the door, throwing a plate at me during an argument, and driving at me with his vehicle, hitting me with the side mirror and causing a bruise”.
The application also cites allegations of psychological abuse, including “constant put-downs comparing me unfavourably to other women, acting as if he would harm himself to manipulate me, monitoring my devices without consent, and systematically undermining my confidence to control and isolate me”.
There are also claims of financial abuse, including borrowing $20,000 on four occasions without prompt repayment, forcing her to pay for international holidays under duress, coercing her into expensive purchases, and pressuring her regarding her father’s will.
‘Intimate videos’
“The defendant has held intimate photos and videos of me, and I have been afraid he would expose them to shame and control me if I attempted to leave or resist his demands,’’ the application stated.
“The defendant has repeatedly manipulated and intimidated me into resuming the relationship following separations, creating a cycle of fear and control. Previous breakups in May 2024, June 2024, September 2024, January 2025, and June 2025 were followed by similar intimidation and re-engagement.
“(Mr Latham engaged in) physical violence, including pushing me against walls, forcing me out the door, throwing a plate at me during an argument, and driving at me with his vehicle, hitting me with the side mirror and causing a bruise,” the court document claims.
The matter will be mentioned at Downing Centre Local Court on July 30.
‘Vile’ homophobic tweets
Last year the Federal Court found Mr Latham defamed independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich after claiming in a homophobic social media post that Mr Greenwich was not a fit and proper person to be a member of the NSW parliament because he engaged in “disgusting” sexual activities.
He was ordered to pay $140,000 to Mr Greenwich.
During the trial, Mr Greenwich’s barrister Matt Collins KC said Mr Latham’s statements were “pregnant with innuendo”.
“It is plainly not a tweet about homosexual sex. It’s a tweet about a particular and unhygienic sex act,” Dr Collins said.
“People understood Mr Latham to be saying exactly what he said in the tweet: that Mr Greenwich engages in a particularly disgusting and hygienic sexual act.”
Last month Mr Latham used parliamentary privilege to reveal confidential information from a psychologist’s report prepared for the tribunal as to the case brought by Mr Greenwich.
In response, Mr Greenwich told parliament that Mr Latham “thinks and talks far too much about my sex life”.
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