Geoffrey Keith Provest (born 29 March 1958) is an Australian politician and a Nationals member of the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...

representing the

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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

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Bowls Club for 15 years. He is a director of Bowls Australia and the chair of the Regional Salvation Army Annual Red Shield Charity Appeal. He was a chairman of 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. 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 was re-elected in 2011, 2015, and 2019. He was the chair, State and Regional Development Committee in 2011, chair, Committee on Law and Safety since 2015 and chair, Joint Committee on the Office of the Valuer General since 2017.

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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales 1958 births Living people People from Tweed Heads, New South Wales 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-National-politician-stub