Jane Furneaux Garrett was a politician from Australia who died on July, 2,2022.
She represented Brunswick in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as a Labor Party member from 2010 until 2018, when she went to the Victorian Legislative Council to represent Eastern Victoria.
She was 49.
Jane Garrett how did she die?
She died from cancer.
Garrett ran for the office of ALP National President on the Left ticket. [2] She was elected National Junior Vice President and began her tenure in December 2011.
Garrett served as shadow cabinet secretary before to the 2014 state election.
Garrett was named Minister for Emergency Services and Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming, and Liquor Regulation in the newly-elected Andrews Labor administration after being re-elected in 2014.
Garrett resigned from the Andrews Ministry on June 9, 2016, following a dispute over an enterprise bargaining agreement between the Country Fire Authority (CFA), the United Firefighters Union, and the Victorian government.
Garrett was assaulted by a lady in Carlton on August 15, 2016.
Garrett declared on September 27, 2017, that she would not run for Brunswick in the upcoming state election and would instead seek preselection for the Victorian Legislative Council seat of the Western Metropolitan Region.
Her nomination was defeated by Ingrid Stitt, branch secretary of the Australian Services Union, who was supported by Labor’s left-wing. She was, however, afterward preselected to lead the Labor ticket in the Eastern Victoria Region.
