Geoff Howard
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2014}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2014}}
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| name = Geoff Howard
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| image = Geoff Howard.jpg
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| caption = Geoff Howard, 2010
| constituency_AM1 = Buninyong
| assembly1 = Victorian Legislative
| term_start1 = 29 November 2014
| term_end1 = 30 October 2018
| predecessor1 = New seat
| successor1 = Michaela Settle
| constituency_AM2 = Ballarat East
| assembly2 = Victorian Legislative
| term_start2 = 18 September 1999
| term_end2 = 29 November 2014
| predecessor2 = Barry Traynor
| successor2 = Seat abolished
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| birth_name = Geoffrey Kemp Howard
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1955|11|8}}
| birth_place = Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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| party = Labor Party
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| website = [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ghoward/ home.vicnet.net.au/~ghoward/]
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Geoffrey Kemp Howard (born 8 November 1955) is an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing Ballarat East from 1999 to 2014, and Buninyong from 2014 to 2018.
Life and work
Howard was born at Geelong, Victoria, and attended public schools in Belmont and Geelong. He received a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in 1977 from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma of Education in 1979 from State College Rusden. He became a secondary school teacher at Kaniva in 1980, moving to Ballarat in 1982. He joined the Labor Party in 1987, and was elected to Ballarat City Council in 1989. He was mayor in 1993 and 1994, but left the council in 1994, only to return in 1996.{{cite web
| last = Parliament of Victoria
| author-link = Parliament of Victoria
| title = Howard, Geoffrey ("Geoff") Kemp
| work = re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851
| publisher = Parliament of Victoria
| date = 2008
| url = http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=106
| accessdate = 8 April 2009}}
Howard left the council in 1999 after he was preselected as the Labor candidate for the Liberal-held seat of Ballarat East prior to the 1999 state election. At the election, Howard defeated sitting MP Barry Traynor. He was immediately appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment in 1999, moving to Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture in 2002. In 2006, he lost his parliamentary secretary position, and became chair of the Education and Training Committee.
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Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Category:Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Category:21st-century Australian politicians
Category:University of Melbourne alumni
Category:20th-century mayors of places in Australia
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