In the last 24 hours, the New South Wales Minister for Roads, David Campbell, resigned ahead of footage which showed him exiting a well known gay sauna. Apparently the Seven Television network was able to film him exiting KKK aka "Ken's Karate Klub" on Anzac Parade, Kensington.
The Sydney Morning Herald has the story. Essentially David Campbell
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As long as the public eats this stuff up we will have useless and harmful information about our public servants and representatives collected and sensationalized.
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He has an personal issue with this wife and kids. This is not something that I need to know. I need to be able to assess his performance as a minister, and his family life doesn't make part of that assessment.
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except that he used a ministerial car to go to said gay venue
which would put it available for public view/interrogatives
had he used his own car/transportation....
then i would have said leave him alone/no ya business!!!!
same as using a work computer for porn : not evil but places you in a position to expose your proclivities
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The way it worked is you'd drop your car off at the motor pool and pick up one of theirs. She was leaving on a business trip at 6am the next day, as we often did, and the practice is to get the motor pool car the night before if you need to leave before it opened.
Some kook called her boss complaining that a state car was in a grocery store lot. She very reasonably picked up some chopped meat for dinner that night on the way home.
Mr Campbell has committed a similar offense. That is, it's not worth the hassle he's getting.
Unless he was using his position to hurt gay folks, who cares?
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It is not an offence to use a ministerial car for private activities. It is a fringe benefit of the job.
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i agree that they shouldn't have even done this report; it's obviously gossipy and disingenuous
however that being said, i reiterate : use public car = public eye, good or bad
i don't know him or of him but i wish he would have stated : "what my private life is is none of your business" and dismissed the reports as having nothing pertaining to his job duties
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I really dislike the tabloid stuff.
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http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com/ - this is Seven's peak current affairs show now.
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But the whole hoohah is depressing and disgusting in equal amounts.
There is even one 'surveillance' shot of him 'allegedly'.
Journalism was once a great profession.
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http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/a-family-man-beyond-our-ken-20100521-w1p7.html
http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/21/the-minister-the-gay-sauna-and-a-reporter-with-scores-to-settle/
That heartens me - that journalists generally regard private lives as private. Unfortunately it only takes two people (Walters and Meakin) to do this sort of thing.
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