Background
Jane Aagaard was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1956, to John Stuart McIntosh and Jean Brown.
Jane Aagaard was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1956, to John Stuart McIntosh and Jean Brown.
She moved to Brisbane, Queensland at the age of seven, where she was educated at Somerville House, a school for girls in South Brisbane.
She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2012, representing the Darwin-based electorate of Nightcliff. She was the Speaker of the Assembly from June 2005 until October 2012. Prior to holding the speakership, she had served as Health Minister from 2001 to 2003.
Aagaard also became heavily involved in many aspects of the Darwin community.
She helped found the Brolga Awards and Northern Territory Sports Awards, and continued organising both presentations for several years. Not long before entering parliament, she had also organised the city"s commemoration of its bombing by Japanese forces during World World War World War II When former Chief Minister Stephen Hatton, the longtime CLP member for Nightcliff, retired at the 2001 election, Aagaard ran as the Labor candidate against Hatton"s son, Jason.
She was reelected in 2005, picking up a healthy swing of 8.5 percent
In March 2012, Aargard announced that she would not contest the next election due to "ongoing medical issues that would require treatment and surgery". In November 2012, Aargard was granted the title The Honourable for life.