Geoff Buckland
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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| office = Senator for South Australia
| term_start = 12 October 2000
| term_end = 30 June 2005
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| birth_place =Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Geoffrey Frederick Buckland (born 10 November 1947), was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate from 2000 to 2005, representing the state of South Australia. Buckland was selected by the Parliament of South Australia to fill the Senate seat left vacant after the resignation of John Quirke under Section 15 of the Australian Constitution.[http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fjournals%2F2000-10-30%2F0002%22 Vacancy In The Representation Of South Australia—Choice Of Geoffrey Frederick Buckland], Parliament of Australia, 12 October 2000. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was blast furnace operator, and an official with the Federated Ironworkers' Association and later the Whyalla-Woomera Branch Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union before entering politics.Green, Antony: [http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2004/guide/departingmps.htm 2004 Federal Election: Retiring MPs], Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2004.
Buckland did not contest the 2004 election. His term expired on 30 June 2005.
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Category:Australian trade unionists
Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia
Category:Labor Right politicians
Category:Members of the Australian Senate for South Australia
Category:21st-century Australian politicians
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