‘What scandal?’ Robyn Clarke claims she has not heard

Murray-Wellington MLA Robyn Clarke today said she had “not heard’ about the pamphlet scandal that rocked her electorate. Mrs Clarke denied any knowledge about the distribution of pamphlets suggesting the Harvey Shire Council was endorsing its councillor Michelle Boylan — who is running for the Liberal party. When asked about the scandal, Mrs Clarke claimed it was the first time she had heard about it. “I am not quite sure what you’re talking about,” Mrs Clarke said. “I don’t know anything about it sorry.” Mrs Clarke said the Labor party had not asked her about the incident which featured in The West Australian and Harvey-Waroona Reporter this week. She said she had done a media ban for two weeks to “psyche” herself up for the election. “I don’t read Facebook, I don’t go into media,” Mrs Clarke said. When asked about an Instagram post she shared on Thursday she admitted she had used her social media. “On my private one I have,” she said. On Thursday Mrs Clarke shared a post from African American human rights activist Malcolm X which cited propaganda. The post was soon deleted after it surfaced in an online article. Mrs Clarke said the post was a an Instagram memory from the last election after a bad experience with Liberal Murray Cowper on March 11 2017. “At the time my opponent who was a sitting member was saying some very nasty thing about me and I put that up on election day in 2017,” she said. Mrs Clarke said she had run a “really positive campaign” without negativity. Her counterpart Mrs Boylan denied any involvement in the pamphlet scandal and called the act “un-Australian”. “Doing anything that is slanted the wrong way to look fraudulent is very un-Australian because we’re way better than that,” Mrs Boylan said.