Journalist and former television presenter Jane Hansen dies after a battle with brain cancer

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Journalist and former television presenter Jane Hansen ***** after a battle with brain *******

A revered television journalist and war correspondent has ***** following a nearly two year battle against an aggressive form of brain *******.

Most recently a journalist with News Corp’s Sunday Telegraph, Jane Hansen ***** surrounded by her loved ones on the Gold Coast about 11.40pm on Tuesday.

Ms Hansen was diagnosed with glioblastoma 18 months ago.

In a statement, Ms Hansen’s brother said the former A Current Affair journalist remained her humorous self until the end.

Camera IconMs Hansen passed away on the Gold Coast on Tuesday. Credit: News Corp Australia

“Jane passed away peacefully at approximately 11.40pm 6 August. Jane put up an amazing ****** right till the end and never once complained, and never lost her sense of humour this whole time,” he wrote.

“We will be in touch soon regarding Jane’s ******** arrangements and yes there will be a wake to celebrate this fantastic woman!”

Her brother thanked family and friends for their “extraordinary level of support, love and compassion,” over the past 18 months.

Claire Harvey, now editorial director of The ***********, formerly deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph, described Ms Hansen as “the most passionate journalistic crusader” she has ever known.

“She swore a lot. She got outraged a lot. And she laughed a lot – and made me laugh – every time we spoke,” she said.

“A decade ago Jane and I worked together on No Jab, No Play, The Sunday Telegraph’s campaign to lift childhood vaccination rates. We changed the law in every state and territory and the Commonwealth, to ensure millions more children got lifesaving childhood vaccinations against whooping cough, polio, measles and other preventable *********.”

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==Camera IconMs Hansen was a revered journalist and television reporter. Credit: Supplied

Ms Harvey said the change would not have occurred without Ms Hansen’s “compassion and courage”.

Ms Hansen was the anonymous author of 2008 novel, “Boned” which “blew the lid off the blokey culture of commercial television”.

In a 2017 article revealing herself and Fiona McKenzie as the co-writers, Ms Hansen said she felt like she needed to “take a stand against” the “despicable behaviour of men the in charge”.

“I would not go to pieces if someone pulled their ****** out in front of me in the board room (it happened),” she wrote.

“I’ve slept on the floor in the bombed-out “******* side” at the Holiday Inn, Sarajevo, in the middle of the Bosnian war, bribed murderous Iraqi officials to extend my visa in Baghdad, slept rough without a shower for over a week in the Iraqi desert to be the first to track down *********** troops during the war on ******* (only to be asked in a live cross where I was washing my knickers).

Ms Hansen said after all she had done, defending her position as a seasoned journalist in commercial television was “exhausting and depressing”.

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