Local politician says he was s**t shamed after porn stash was discovered on his computer.

Getting caught with a sizeable stash of porn on your phone or laptop is pretty damn embarrassing at the best of times. If you are a sitting local councillor and those devices happen to be supplied by work, you’re surely talking mortifying, not-leaving-the-house levels of shame.

Not so for Queensland’s Redland City councillor, Craig Ogilvie. The politician refuses to concede he’s done anything questionable, despite hundreds of pornographic images and several videos – some starring Councillor Ogilvie himself – being uncovered on his work-issued laptop and mobile phone.

In an interview with 612 ABC Brisbane after the discovery of the material was made public, Ogilvie said watching pornography was hardly “uncommon” and while conceding might be “more red-blooded than some”, he wasn’t guilty of any improper or illegal behaviour.

Ogilvie told 612 ABC Brisbane he pays for the personal use of his mobile phone and laptop, so it is nobody else’s business what he chooses to do with them in his free time.

“What I’m told is that even private use of work-supplied devices does not belong to the company that supplied those devices,” he said. “And nor should it.”

The public and media response to the story, he believes, has been nothing short of prudish. “- or slut-shamed by anybody else,” he told ABC radio.

The Department of Local Government began investigating Ogilvie after he admitted using his council email address to sign up for notorious cheating website, Ashley Madison, last year.

Ogilvie was also accused of covertly taking photographs of women at the beach, however those allegations were dismissed following a police investigation.

Despite the scandal, Ogilvie will be standing for re-election on March 19 and told ABC radio that if he were to retain his position, he would argue for councillors to be allowed to have personal devices that are “rigged” for work use, rather than the other way around.