Mark Latham’s former partner Nathalie May Matthews in renewed plea to police

The former partner of Mark Latham will make another plea to police over a domestic violence order application, as it is claimed the ex-One Nation figure proposed to Nathalie Matthews last year.

Mark Latham and Nathalie Matthews just after Latham proposed in May 2024 at Otto restaurant, casting doubt on his claims their pair were just in a ‘situationship’ (left), and the pair photographed at the races (right).

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The former partner of under-fire NSW parliamentarian Mark Latham will make another plea to police over a domestic violence order application in which she has made claims of serious emotional, psychological and financial manipulation.

A series of domestic violence allegations made by Mr Latham’s former partner, Nathalie May Matthews, was published by The Australian on Tuesday, including that he drove at her with a car, threw dinner plates at her and forced her into degrading sexual acts.

It can now be revealed that it is claimed Mr Latham – who emphatically denies the allegations and who has labelled the pair’s relationship as a “situationship” – proposed to Ms Matthews in May last year at Otto Ristorante at inner-Sydney’s Woolloomooloo wharf.

In a photograph understood to have been taken following the proposal, the smiling couple is seen together, with Ms Matthews sporting what appears to be a diamond ring on her wedding finger.

Messages between Ms Matthews and a friend, seen by The Australian, claim Mr Latham proposed on May 18, 2024.

Ms Matthews is expected to return to police this week to push her case for a restraining order.

Ms Matthews and Mr Latham. Picture: Instagram

In application documents filed with the NSW Local Court, Ms Matthews detailed serious allegations of “degrading” sexual acts, and claims she had been in a “constant state of fear and hyper­vigilance” since returning from overseas in June “due to the defendant’s pattern of harassment and ­intimidation following previous separations”.

The application alleges Mr Latham engaged in vile acts, “including defecating on me before sex and refusing to let me wash, 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 my only value to him was for sex to demean and control me.”

“(He 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 document claims.

On Tuesday evening, sexually explicit WhatsApp messages were published by The Daily Telegraph, allegedly exchanged while Mr Latham was on the floor of NSW parliament, with Ms Matthews also describing Mr Latham as “master” while messaging him.

In response to the reports, Mr Latham has made counter-claims and The Daily Telegraph published messages between the duo in which Mr Latham claimed Ms Matthews “physically ­attacked” him. She replied in writing that she could not recall such an incident.

NSW Energy Minister and upper house leader Penny Sharpe on Tuesday criticised the former federal Labor leader, labelling the allegations against him as “very disturbing and frankly disgusting”.

“They are allegations so I ­obviously can’t make too much of it,” she said. “The Labor government has been calling out Mark Latham for several months now in relation to his behaviour in a whole range of different things.”

Mr Latham had previously ­issued an emphatic denial about the claims, saying they were ­“absolute rubbish” and declaring he had not yet been served with any order.

In her DVO application documents, Ms Matthews has claimed that he engaged in a “sustained pattern” of abuse, including emotional, psychological and financial manipulation, pressured her to have sex with other people and participate in depraved acts, and drove his car at her.

Ms Matthews, 37, who owns an e-commerce global logistics firm based in Dubai, Perth and Sydney, is seeking an order preventing Mr Latham from going within 100m of her, alleging an “ongoing, reasonable fear of harassment, intimidation, and potential harm”.

It is understood she had previously taken the allegations to NSW police but they have not yet laid any ­charges or applied for an order on her behalf.