Seth Packhurst

Seth Packhurst1 first appeared in late 2011 in a guest role. He was the District Health Board member who replaced Shane Tucker (Jason Hood) as the hospital's representative. He first appeared when Chris Warner (Michael Galvin) demonstrated remote surgery disastrously. In 2012 Seth became temporary CEO after suspending Rachel McKenna (Angela Bloomfield) but after trying to fire Bree (Rachel Blampied), he began to get blackmailed by her. Sarah Potts (Amanda Billing) angrily confronted Seth when she believed he was pretending to date her, only to discover he was gay and in the following few months, the two became best friends. Seth became involved in a bitter political battle with Rachel for the CEO position of the hospital, which eventuated in Seth using his boyfriend Henry (Peter Huang) to spy for him. Seth eventually ousted Rachel from the position but in his attempts to privatise the hospital, he became involved in insider trading and was handed into police by Rachel through Henry's help.

Seth was planned to be gay for several months before the revelation was actually written and as such, directors were informed not to have Seth flirting with any female characters.[18] Leach pointed out a continuity error however, when Seth was seen romancing a woman in one of his early scenes.[19]