Clarke Gayford seems to be a better friend than public health advisor. Photo / Michael Craig, File
EDITORIAL
Reality TV presenter Clarke Gayford has received a sharp lesson in perception as reality over an ill-considered attempt to wrangle rapid antigen tests from a chemist for some friends.
Even as a television "personality", his actions would have been uncouth. As the Prime Minister's fiance, it reeks of exploiting
his position and rightly becomes a political embarrassment. As a public health adviser, he was also wrong.
He may feel he was only phoning in some advice as an everyday mate of the musos but few in the public sphere would perceive it that way. The pharmacist cannot help but feel he was being leveraged by a prominent person, with a close friend in a high place, to override a current health advisory.
