Jane Margaret Hill (13 July 1936 – 7 September 2015) was an Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding ...

from 1982 to 1992, representing the electorates of Frankston and

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. Hill was born in the rural town of

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, where she attended Dimboola State School and Dimboola High School. She moved to

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after completing high school, and worked as a mothercraft nurse until her marriage in 1956. She lived in regional Victoria from 1956 to 1969, when she returned to Melbourne, settling in Frankston. Hill resumed work in 1974, taking up a position as a catering officer at the Frankston Nursing Home. She was elected to the City of Frankston council in 1979, and held both positions simultaneously until her election to parliament in 1982. Frankston was widely considered to be a safe Liberal seat in 1982, and Hill did not expect to win when she was preselected as the Labor candidate at the 1982 state election. Amidst a strong statewide Labor victory, however, she received a swing of 7.3%, defeating incumbent Liberal MP

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by 76 votes in what was widely considered a major upset. Her seat was divided in two by a redistribution ahead of the 1985 election, where she was re-elected as the member for

. She was again re-elected in 1988. Hill faced a much tougher battle for re-election at the 1992 state election, as Labor lost office in a landslide defeat. She ran in the new seat of

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, essentially a reconfigured Frankston North, against new Liberal candidate

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, but was narrowly defeated in a result so close it was not known for several days. She died in 2015, aged 79.Death Notice: Jane Margaret (Henderson) HILL
''The Age'', 10 September 2015.

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