The Outing of David Campbell

Well we all know a bit more than when I first wrote on this matter last Thursday night. David Campbell has lived with a deeply personal secret for who knows how many years.  Clearly someone knew or suspected but we haven't been told how Channel 7 and Adam Walters came to know about the Minister's "personal choices".  I think this is relevant as it goes to the veracity of any claim that 7 and Walters has made that this "outing" was somehow in the public interest. I think we need to know their source, their motivation to follow Campbell, before we could e convinced that this was anything other than a grubby and wicked use of a person's sexuality to add to the ratings of an organisation and to elevate the career of an individual journalist.

Walters has been much more than an arms length observer and reporter of State politics.  He has worked for the Government as an advisor and as long as all matters personal are on the table, we shouldn't forget that he became former Minister for Health, Reba Meagher's lover and partner.  No longer together, they do now share a child.  Walters tried lamely to raise the issue of public interest  as Campbell had used his Ministerial car to visit Ken's at Kensington.  Well, he was entitled to, wasn't he?  He could have even used it to go to Ken's Kebabs at Kellyville if chose.  Walters would no doubt have known this having spent more than a little time with a Minister.  He and Meagher famously apparently enjoyed a night together forgetting to let the Minister's driver know her car wouldn't be needed!  Not so flash for that driver.

With Channel 7 alluding to more to follow I can only imagine that they are desperately trying to find a story to shore up what has become a bit of a PR disaster for them.  This grubby intrusion into the personal life of a politician in this way has been shown to more about titillation and ratings than it ever was to do with public interest.

KK seems to have received some good reports over her stance as well.  She certainly read her script well (shown by cameras peering over her shoulder) though it really was arrogant of her to utter those words that what Campbell had done was "unforgivable".  And this from someone who parades her Christian faith as part of her public life.  This wasn't Christian, it was Old Testament.  Apart from that pious statement from a clearly morally superior person, I think her overall message was correct.  I am glad though  surprised, that David Campbell appears to be facing up to the situation so well.  But then again, this bloke would be one of the most immovable politicians I have ever seen.