Former emergency services minister remembered by her family for her ‘contagious love of life and people’
Former Victorian emergency services minister and long-time Labor MP Jane Garrett has died from breast cancer at the age of 49.
Garrett, who served as member for Brunswick and for Eastern Victoria, quit cabinet in 2016 over a controversial firefighters’ union pay deal. “We are devastated by the passing this afternoon of our beloved mother, sister, daughter, dear friend Jane Garrett, following a long battle with cancer,” the statement said.
“We wish to thank the staff at the Epworth Freemasons for their love and care of Jane over the last years and in particular over the past week.
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