Geoff Howard

Geoff Howard
Geoff Howard
	Geoff Howard, 2010
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly; for Buninyong
	In office; 29 November 2014 – 30 October 2018
Preceded by	New seat
Succeeded by	Michaela Settle
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly; for Ballarat East
	In office; 18 September 1999 – 29 November 2014
Preceded by	Barry Traynor
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Personal details
Born	Geoffrey Kemp Howard; 8 November 1955; Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Political party	Labor Party
Website	home.vicnet.net.au/~ghoward/

Geoffrey Kemp Howard (born 8 November 1955) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1999, representing Ballarat East until 2014 and Buninyong until 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 from 1980–82, moving to Ballarat in 1982. He joined the Labor Party in 1987, and was elected to Ballarat City Council in 1989. He was mayor from 1993–94 but left the council in 1994, only to return in 1996.[1]

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. Howard defeated sitting MP Barry Traynor to win the seat. 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 is currently the Chair of the Education and Training Committee.[1]

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References

Parliament of Victoria (2008). "Howard, Geoffrey ("Geoff") Kemp". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 8 April 2009.

External links

Parliamentary voting record of Geoff Howard at Victorian Parliament Tracker

Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Barry Traynor	Member for Ballarat East 1999–2014	Abolished
New seat	Member for Buninyong 2014–2018	Succeeded by Michaela Settle

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[vic-1] Parliament of Victoria (2008). "Howard, Geoffrey ("Geoff") Kemp". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 8 April 2009.