Jane Garrett is married to James Higgins. They had three children together. There isn’t much information about James Higgins as he has kept a low profile over the years.
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His wife, Jane died of breast cancer. The former emergency services minister since the minister was diagnosed with the disease in 2016 and announced last year that she would not stand for re-election in the 2022 state poll.
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Garret served as a member for Brunswick and for Eastern Victoria and quit the cabinet in 2016 over a controversial firefighter’s union pay deal. Her death on Saturday evening was announced in a statement from her family, who praised her contagious love of life and people.
Part of the statement read;
“We will remember Jane always for her contagious love of life and people; her intense compassion and the drive which made her a very fierce advocate for women and those most advantaged”.
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