Bombshell leaked text messages emerge after Mark Latham was accused of forcing his ex partner to perform degrading sex acts: ‘Need badly to taste you’

Mark Latham exchanged sexually explicit messages with his former partner during parliamentary sitting hours, according to leaked text logs. 

The WhatsApp message logs reported by The Daily Telegraph allegedly show interactions between the NSW independent MP and his former partner, businesswoman Nathalie Matthews.

It comes after The Australian reported earlier this week Matthews had accused Latham of abusive behaviour, including forcing her into ‘degrading sexual acts’.

Latham told Daily Mail Australia the outlet’s reproduction of the messages was ‘not accurate’. It is also not suggested the claims of abusive behaviour are substantiated, only that the allegations have been made.

The leaked WhatsApp messages include a series of lewd exchanges on February 20, 2025 during parliamentary sitting hours.  

Shortly after 11am, he wrote ‘Very hard thinking about you,’ to Ms Matthews, before following up with a series of suggestive emojis. 

That afternoon, he wrote: ‘Need badly to taste you’ alongside an emoji of a tongue. 

About 8.38pm, he said: ‘Made it back for first vote after dinner’. 

Mr Latham told the outlet the communications did not impact his work.

The tranche of leaked messages includes far more graphic messages, over a period stretching as far back as October last year. 

On several occasions, Mr Latham is referred to as ‘master’. 

He said he was sent images by Ms Matthews when parliament was sitting, ‘seeking a response’ and that he could not describe the images due to ‘an abundance of caution about the revenge porn laws’. 

‘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 told The Daily Telegraph.

Ms Matthews allegations against Mr Latham were detailed in court documents filed with the NSW Local Court. 

She made the allegations as part of an attempt to seek a domestic violence order against Mr Latham, including that he subjected her to a ‘sustained pattern of emotional, physical, sexual, psychological, and financial abuse’.

Mr Latham has denied the allegations which he referred to as ‘comically false and ridiculous’ in a posts to X on Monday night. 

He said he had ‘scores of documents’ to support his claims and said he would rely on those documents to defend himself. 

‘As the old saying goes, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,’ he wrote.

Ms Matthews, who runs an e-commerce global logistics firm based in Dubai, Perth and Sydney, has applied for an interim order barring Mr Latham from coming within 100 metres, citing ‘ongoing, reasonable fear of harassment, intimidation, and potential harm’.

Her application accuses the former Labor leader of throwing a dinner plate at her, forcing her to call him ‘master’, and pressuring her to have sex with others.

Ms Matthews’ filing also alleges Mr Latham prevented her from cleaning up after ‘defecating on me before sex’ and ‘telling me I was his property, and repeatedly telling me that my only value to him was for sex to demean and control me’.

Ms Matthews also alleged ‘physical violence’ incidents, 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’.

Mr Latham is further accused of ‘systematically undermining’ Ms Matthews to ‘control and isolate’ her by comparing her ‘unfavourably to other women, acting as if he would harm himself to manipulate me’.

Ms Matthews accuses Mr Latham of forcing her to cover the cost of holidays abroad ‘under duress’, making her purchase expensive goods, and coercing her regarding her father’s will for his benefit.

She claims she experienced ‘constant fear and hyper-vigilance’ since her arrival home from a June trip abroad, alleging all past break-ups with Mr Latham featured a repeated ‘pattern of harassment and intimidation’.

She alleges: ‘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.’

Mr Latham denied all accusations to The Australian.

‘Nothing has been served on me nor has anyone contacted me,’ he told the newspaper.

‘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.’

Ms Matthews made the application herself, with NSW Police neither charging Mr Latham nor seeking an order on her behalf.

The matter will heard at Downing Centre Local Court on 30 July.

Ms Matthews is a Liberal Party member and stood as a candidate at the 2021 Sutherland Shire Council election.