Allan is Australia’s longest-serving female minister, and will soon also be the longest-serving Labor MP in the Victorian parliament. Today, the 48-year-old will almost certainly become deputy premier. | ClayLucas
When Jacinta Allan was elected for a second term in 2002 as the MP for Bendigo East, she became a minister at age 29. She was the youngest minister in the history of the state.pointed out at the time that just seven years earlier Allan had been bagging groceries part-time at Coles in Kangaroo Flat, near Bendigo.
Energy in politics has never been a problem for Allan, the Minister for Transport Infrastructure and the Suburban Rail Loop. But keeping a lid on the cost of the major projects she oversees has been. That pandemic though had its challenges for Allan, who was acting premier in late 2020 and early 2021 when Victoria took the dramatic step of shutting the border with NSW on New Year’s Eve., that upended the summer breaks of 60,000 Victorians and led to massive traffic jams as motorists frantically tried to cross the border to avoid 14 days of home quarantine.
Allan, who has two children with unionist Yorick Piper, was elected in the pro-Labor regional swing of 1999, claiming Bendigo East from former Liberal minister Michael John. She now holds the seat on a margin of more than 7 per cent.
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