Former Victorian services minister and long-time Labor MP, Jane Garrett died from breast cancer at the age of 49.
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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”.
Jane was survived by her three children, Molly, Sasha and Max
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