Victorian Labor MP Jane Garrett has died from breast cancer at the age of 49.
The former emergency services minister, an MP since 2010, was diagnosed with the disease in 2016 and announced late last year she would not stand for re-election in the 2022 state poll.
Garrett, who served as member for Brunswick and for Eastern Victoria, quit cabinet in 2016 over a controversial firefighters’ union pay deal.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews spoke of Garrett’s heartfelt advocacy for working people, and extended the offer of a state funeral as a mark of her “significant contribution to Victoria”.
Her death on Saturday evening was announced in a statement from her family, who praised her “contagious love of life and people”….