60 Mins’ Explosive Report On Cassie Sainsbury Is Totally Dividing Australia

The latest piece of chum thrown into the frenzy surrounding Adelaide woman Cassie Sainsbury, who is currently in a Colombian prison awaiting trial for drug trafficking, is courtesy of tonight’s 60 Minutes program – and it’s thoroughly divided public opinion. 

In an explosive investigative report, the program claims that Sainsbury was working as a FIFO sex worker in a Sydney brothel called Club 220. Channel 9 says that they’ve spoken to a number of sources confirming this story, including a woman who was interviewed anonymously in the broadcast.

Of course, the question remains – and is being asked on Twitter and Facebook, over and over again – so the fuck what? 

Imagine being so bad at your job that you consider a piece of garbage like this to be some of your best work @tomsteinfort pic.twitter.com/GCDSCOlCnj

— Alex McKinnon (@mckinnon_a) May 21, 2017

Why has 60 Minutes resorted to outing people as sex workers, are there no children left to kidnap?

— Peter Taggart (@petertaggart) May 21, 2017

Cocaine Cassie on 60 Minutes…..she must have done it…”she was a prostitute….” Journalism at its finest!… https://t.co/2QITau7y9A

— James WF Roberts (@JamesWFRoberts) May 21, 2017

I sense an in-depth review coming on @ABCmediawatch tomorrow night over @60Minutes #cassiesainsbury story and on @sundaynighton7

— Mark Heenan (@MarkyHeeno) May 21, 2017

Obviously some people seem to think it’s relevant – whether because it proves her guilty (um, no it doesn’t) or just because it’s juicy. 

@60Mins Given the story 60 minutes is giving she’s looking more guilty than before I mean she’s just a drug mule like them all face it

— Anne Gordon (@AnneGor77871669) May 21, 2017

@spanner77 @lisa___01 @daniel_kaye @von_troska74 60 minutes has more juicy details! A working girl!

— Timothy Kaye (@MrTimothyKaye) May 21, 2017

I am a bit bemused by the idea that Cassie Sainsbury’s employment in an industry rife with drugs prior to her arrest is not newsworthy.

— Andrew (@egadheg) May 21, 2017

Everything im reading makes me more sure she is guilty #CassieSainsbury

— ??Adam Price ?? (@Adam___Price) May 21, 2017

Regardless of whether Sainsbury is guilty or not, this kind of dirt-digging is at best totally irrelevant and at worst genuinely harmful. It’s gonna be interesting to see if and how this is dealt with by Australia‘s media watchdogs – but for now, I guess all we can do is hope they don’t get 60 Minutes in El Buen Pastor prison.