Education
Heather McTaggart attended Whitehorse Technical College in Box Hill from 1973 to 1978 (the school was amalgamated into Box Hill Technical and Further Education in 1981).
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Following high school she worked as a secretary in the stockbroking industry until 1981, when she began working at Esanda Finance Corporation Limited in numerous roles until 1995. From 1997 to 1998 she worked as an integration aid at Fernhill Pre-School. Greg died soon afterwards at the age of 33, and shortly after his funeral, Heather discovered that she was pregnant.
She joined the Lilydale branch of the Australian Labor Party and developed an interest in special education.
She was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the 2002 Victorian election as the member for Evelyn, winning the seat from the Liberal Member of Parliament Christine Fyffe, however Fyffe regained the seat at the next election in 2006. After losing her seat, McTaggart went to work for Labor Member of Parliament Kirstie Marshall.
Foreign 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 Information Technology glitch saw her name remain on the electorate office"s internal distribution list. 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.
Membership
A member of the Australian Labor Party, she represented the electoral district of Evelyn in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2006.
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