Jane Garrett

2022 - 9 - 2

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'Million megawatt smile': Friends pay tribute to Victorian MP Jane ... (The Guardian)

Victorian Labor MP Jane Garrett has been remembered as a courageous and principled politician and a doting mother of three during a memorial service in ...

She said Garrett would welcome volunteers like they were “long-lost friends.” She described Garrett as a political mentor for many young Labor women, and the “life of the party” who cherished a glass of champagne and the freedom of running. [described Garrett as a “hero”](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/03/victorian-mps-pay-tribute-to-labors-jane-garrett-as-tim-smith-reveals-he-discovered-her-cancer-recurrence-on-day-of-crash) of Country Fire Authority firefighters. The service featured a musical tribute from Tim Rogers, a friend of Garrett’s who first met the late MP when she was a teenager and said she had a “million megawatt smile”. Bracks, for whom Garrett worked as an adviser between 2000 and 2004, said she “knew how to live”. Victorian upper house MP Mark Gepp – a close friend of Garrett’s – led the service and described her as principled, compassionate and courageous, saying she was one of “Victoria’s most respected daughters”.

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Jane Garrett remembered as generous and straight-talking at ... (ABC News)

Former Victorian emergency services minister Jane Garrett has been remembered as a "generous" and "straight-talking" colleague at a memorial service for the ...

Jane was a rock star," she said. "I had an inkling that she was someone to be watched forever, to be respected and never to be crossed," he said. "A brilliant mind, principled, compassionate, courageous, and she had the best sense of humour and the best laugh," he said.

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'The best laugh': Labor's Jane Garrett farewelled at state memorial ... (The Age)

About 500 mourners, including current and former politicians and trade unionists, gathered at the Brunswick Town Hall – in Garrett's old electorate – to pay ...

She always stayed fearsome even when she was consumed by fear,” Knight said. They regaled the congregation with tales of Garrett’s penchant for fun and laughter. “It’s not the days of her life and death that are important today,” Labor MP Mark Gepp said in his opening remarks. Well before her breast cancer diagnosis, she knew life was precious and precarious. “Jane always stayed upright even when she wanted to fall. “As poet Linda Ellis said, it’s the dash in between that matters.

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Victorian Labor MP Jane Garrett honoured in state memorial after ... (7NEWS.com.au)

The mother-of-three and former Victorian emergency services minister died of breast cancer on July 2. She was 49.

“Jane always stayed upright, even when she wanted to fall. She left this life way too early. But she left knowing that she left this world a better place,” he said in eulogy. Garrett has been remembered as a champion for fairness, mentor to many in the Labor and union movements, and a respected member of parliament. “She took her role as a mother, a wife, a sister, daughter and a friend seriously.” [Victorian](https://7news.com.au/news/vic) Labor MP Jane Garrett has been remembered as a loving mother and compassionate politician at a state memorial service.

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