'You just feel physically ill:' Kate McClymont on a career of exposing Sydney's dark secrets

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The Sydney Morning Herald investigative journalist has been honoured in this year's Australia Day awards.

"It’s been stressful and there’s been difficult times, but it’s such an amazing thing when you can have a job that can make a difference," she says.

"There is always shameless people trying to advantage themselves or their families," she says. "People don’t realise what a corrupt underworld we have in Sydney and in NSW ... they need to be held to account." McClymont says the raids have made whistleblowers more reluctant to talk and reflect badly on Australia’s democracy. Last year alone, McClymont says she spent about 25 per cent of her time working with lawyers on defamation action."Over the years, my sources have become more reluctant to contact you because of that fear that their computers or phones will leave a trail. It’s affecting how we get information from people and whistleblowers are terrified," she says.

 

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Just tops Kate! Well deserved! If you can, keep it up!👍

She feels ill reporting about crimes Go and report on the weather then...

This entire government makes us physically ill, and makes people die! auspol

Sometimes journalists do a service but too often they write substandard gossip just designed to showcase their own ideologies & make money for their paper/media. Frank Sinatra referred to journalists as hookers. I did not feel he was right at the time but as time passes well....

Need to go back tk the '70's and '80's when journos and activists were disappearing or murdered, due to coverage of Developer abuse and thuggery, demolishing peoples homes in Surrey Hills, Dockside and the Rocks area. Guns and dogs outside our doors

Bucket list item ticked zoesam93 ?

I don't have dark secrets, I have bright ones!

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