Kate McClymont: Obeid tried to have me tailed
McClymont: Shadowed?
A Sydney Morning Herald journalist has alleged that a businessman at the centre of an Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry tried to have her placed under surveillance last year.
Kate McClymont – one of Australia’s most respected investigative journalists – wrote today of how she was tipped off by a private eye about the alleged request from Moses Obeid, son of former NSW Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid. McClymont wrote:
“The private eye, who doesn’t want to be named, thought I had better know that in mid-2012 Moses Obeid came to his office wanting his family’s homes and businesses swept for ICAC bugs. The other thing he wanted was ”to have you placed under surveillance”, the investigator said.
“Moses’s beef was that I had led a campaign against him and his family and they needed to find a way to make me stop. ”The whole thrust of his conversation was: ‘Everyone has skeletons in their closet and I want to know what skeletons she’s got.'”
The journalist said that the private eye declined the job, and she did not know if she was tailed as Obeid did not return calls for comment.
McClymont is to provide the keynote address at the Walkley Foundation’s Press Freedom dinner in Sydney on May 3.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large. He returned to Mumbrella as Publisher in January 2025
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