Geoff Provest

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honorific-suffix = MP
office = Member of Legislative Assembly of New South Wales
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Geoffrey (Geoff) Keith Provest is an Australian politican and National Party of Australia member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Provest has represented the Tweed since 24 March 2007.

Provest was born on the North Coast of New South Wales to parents Sydney Keith Provest and Kath Provest.

Provest managed the Tweed Heads Bowls Club for 15 years. He is a Director of Bowls Australia and the Chairman of the Regional Salvation Army Annual Red Shield Charity Appeal. He was also a chairman of the the Far Northern New South Wales Sustainable Region Committee, as well as chair of the Regional Clean Up Australia Day Committee, the Tweed & Coolangatta Tourism Inc, and the Acid Sulphate Soils Regional Committee. [http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20070606045]

Provest was named the Citizen of the Year for the Tweed Shire Council in the 2000 Australia Day awards.

Provest took Labor's most marginal seat from Neville Newell in the 2007 election, where he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He is currently a Member, Standing Committee on Broadband in Rural and Regional Communities.

He is married to Aune and they have four children. [http://www.geoffprovest.com.au/about.htm]

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