Kate McClymont

Kate McClymont is an investigative journalist, currently reporting on the Independent Commission Against Corruption for the Sydney Morning Herald. In the late 1980s, McClymont worked for two years as a junior reporter on Four Corners.^[1] She presented the 2014 Andrew Olle Media Lecture.^[2] She is the co-author, with Linton Besser, of He who must be Obeid,^[3] an unauthorised biography of former NSW Minister Eddie Obeid.

Kate McClymont was successfully sued for defamation by former Macquarie Bank executive Bill Moss for A$49,000 plus legal costs. According to The Australian the judge said "The particular chapter in which Mr Moss is featured is headed The Bagman, evidently a reference to Mr (Eddie) Obeid’s role in an attempt to bribe the NSW Labor government in circumstances where the approval of poker machines was a central requirement of the success of a development proposal backed by Mr Obeid,” “Many other characters in the book come in for similar treatment to that involved in the discussion of Mr Moss. That is, there is a collection of statements which, while not openly attributing dishonesty or corruption to those persons, convey those notions in the careful language of insinuation and scepticism.”^[4]

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