Heather McTaggart
Heather McTaggart | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Victorian Parliament for Evelyn | |
| In office 30 November 2002 – 25 November 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Christine Fyffe |
| Succeeded by | Christine Fyffe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 August 1962 Labor Party |
Heather McTaggart (born 23 August 1962 in
Heather McTaggart attended Whitehorse Technical College in
McTaggart moved to
She was elected to the
After losing her seat, McTaggart went to work for Labor MP Kirstie Marshall. For six months after the election, McTaggart continued to receive internal Liberal Party documents and correspondence from Fyffe's office via her fax machine, after an IT glitch saw her name remain on the electorate office's internal distribution list.[4] The Liberal Party complained to the Victorian Ombudsman, who investigated the matter and cleared McTaggart of forwarding the documents onto others, although Ombudsman George Brouwer acknowledged that she could have passed on the contents of the documents to others without forwarding them directly. McTaggart said she had made an error of judgement by not reporting the misdirected faxes, but denied that she had used the documents for political gain.[5]
References
- ^ a b re-member: McTaggart, Heather, Parliament of Victoria, December 2006.
- ^ Teasdale, Dion: MP’s heart-break prompts organ call Archived 7 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine, Star News Group, 22 August 2006.
- ^ Green, Antony: 2006 Victorian Election: Evelyn (Key Seat), Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 22 November 2006.
- AM (ABC Radio), 4 September 2007.
- ^ Gardiner, Ashley: Labor MP Heather McTaggart cleared of fax forwarding, Herald Sun, 2 November 2007.
