She was a Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2012, representing the Darwin-based electorate of Nightcliff.
[1] Jane Aagaard was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1956, to John Stuart McIntosh and Jean Brown.
Not long before entering parliament, she had also organised the city's commemoration of its bombing by Japanese forces during World War II.
Aagaard's victory was part of a six-seat swing to Labor that saw the party win government for the first time ever, mainly on the strength of a strong performance in the Darwin area.
In March 2012, Aagaard announced that she would not contest the next election due to "ongoing medical issues that would require treatment and surgery".