Kate McClymont: Obeid tried to have me tailed

Tim Burrowes

February 16, 2013 11:56

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.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.