Latham joins bill for Gates show

Microsoft’s chairman will also meet the Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham during his visit next Monday, according to this Computerworld report. Until recently, he was only expected to meet the PM.

CW’s Julian Bajkowski, a man with plenty of Australian Government sources, is evidently enjoying playing up the secrecy surrounding Gates’ visit.

Microsoft Australia’s manager of corporate communications Samantha Herron managed to elevate the secretive cult of Gates’ personality to Maoist proportions, stating no discussion of any “private” aspects of the visit of “the chairman” would be entered into. Herron then refused to confirm, deny or elaborate about why the meeting with Latham was taking place.