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Victorian Attorney-General Jill Hennessy quits ministry to spend more time with family
Jill Hennessy has announced she will step down from her role as Victorian Attorney-General, effective immediately, to spend more time with her family.
Key points:
- Ms Hennessy will stay in Parliament and contest the next election
- She wants to spend more time with her two daughters, who are going into their final years of high school
- Premier Daniel Andrews praised her for making a courageous decision
Ms Hennessy said she would continue to represent the Altona district, and would recontest the 2022 state election.
She said this year had prompted many Victorians to think about what was important to them, and she needed a “new normal” for the challenges in the next period of her life.
Ms Hennessy said politics could be hard on families and hers was…
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