Local MP Jane Garrett dies aged 49

Jul 02 2022 Updated July 3, 2022

Michael Giles

6 min read

The late Member for Eastern Victoria, Jane Garrett, (third left) visiting Fish Creek to check on the progress of work in a $367,155 project to extend and update the kindergarten. Ms Garrett has died over the weekend from cancer.

ON Tuesday, March 16, 2021, Jane Garrett was announcing a Volunteer Emergency Services Equipment Program (VESEP) grant of $193,333 towards the total cost of $222,500 for a Light Tanker for the Ruby CFA Fire Brigade.

Now, at the age of just 49, she is dead.

Early on Saturday night, the media was reporting that the Member for Eastern Victoria, one of a handful of MPs representing South Gippsland a...