Labor candidate for Buninyong Michaela Settle will talk to police over red shirts scandal

A LABOR candidate named in the Ombudsman’s report into the Red Shirts election scandal has said she would give a police interview.

A LABOR candidate named in the Ombudsman’s report into the red shirts election scandal has said she would give a police interview.

Buninyong Labor candidate Michaela Settle was an electorate officer but she was redeployed by Labor to be a field organiser in Ripon during the 2014 election campaign.

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Her time as a field organiser was billed to the taxpayer for $21,000, part of the $388,000 the Labor Party paid back.

Ms Settle said she would co-operate with police into the red shirts inquiry and submit herself to interview.

But 21 other Labor MPs, who signed off on field organisers time sheets, have told Victoria Police’s fraud and Extortion squad they would not be interviewed.

Ms Settle told media in Ballarat she had acted in good faith throughout the 2014 election campaign.

“On page four of the Ombudsman’s report ... it is out there and very detailed and clear that everybody is acting in good faith.

“Furthermore it recommends clearly that no further action should be taken against anybody.

“I think the Ombudsman Report stands and is there for the record.

“If I was asked to I would always co-operate with the police.”

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