Inside the Story – Kate McClymont sums up Eddie Obeid saga
For over 10 years Kate McClymont, Fairfax Media’s multi award-winning investigative journalist, wrote a series of articles that exposed the corrupt actions of former Australian politician, Eddie Obeid. Exclusively for subscribers, Kate has summed up her relentless investigative campaign – and how the saga unfolded through to the recent guilty verdict.
Judy Obeid emerged from her Hunters Hill mansion some years back demanding to know of waiting journalists: “What have we ever done to her?”
She was complaining about yet another unflattering story I had written about her husband Eddie. The Obeids didn’t get it. It was never about them, it was about the things they did.
When someone first came to me in 1999 with information about the wheeling and dealing of an ALP upper house MP, I had to say, “Eddie who?”
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