The senator, who served in the Australian army for 40 years before beginning his political career, was diagnosed with aggressive cancer in 2021.
Jim Molan was a major general in the Australian Army before entering politics later in life.abc.net.au/news/liberal-senator-jim-molan-dies-cancer/101861966Senator Jim Molan has died, aged 72, two years after he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer.Returned to the Senate, he was re-elected to a six-year term last yearIn April 2021, he announced he was taking sick leave after being diagnosed with cancer.
He returned to parliament after his treatment and was re-elected to a six-year term in the Senate in the May 2022 election.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the late senator as "a man of principle and a politician of conviction".Before entering politics, Senator Molan spent four decades in the Australian army where he reached the rank of major general.
He served in Indonesia and East Timor, where he was awarded for his service, and went on to hold a senior operations role during the war in Iraq.After retiring from the army in 2008, he became involved in politics in 2012. His first taste of what would become his political career was working with former prime minister Tony Abbott's government on its policy to stop asylum seeker boats.
Operation Sovereign Borders became a controversial plan that turned back boats to Indonesia and saw Senator Molan work closely with former prime minister Scott Morrison.
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