Geoff Provest - Your Coalition Candidate for Tweed

G’day!

To those that I haven’t had the pleasure to meet yet I’m Geoff Provest and am proud to be your elected representative in State Parliament.

For many years now I have been listening to and fighting for various community groups across the Tweed on a whole range of issues. I have now formalised my commitment to our local community by running as the Nationals candidate for Tweed at the 24 March 2007 NSW election.

I was lucky enough to be born and raised here on the North Coast of NSW. My wife, Aune (pronounced Ona), and I have 4 children who are now in their teens and early twenties and we are proud grandparents. We live in our own home at Banora Point.

In recent years Aune and I have been running our own successful consultancy business called GAP Connections. I am a Director of Bowls Australia and the Chairman of the Regional Salvation Army Annual Red Shield Charity Appeal. Aune and I are Tweed Community Volunteers and we support numerous community groups including local Resident’s Associations, P&C groups and Chambers of Commerce.

For 15 years I was the General Manager of the Tweed Heads Bowls Club, successfully expanding the club and offering improved facilities and services to its members. During this time I established the Combined Clubs of the Tweed; established Bowls Australia; was instrumental in bringing the Southern Cross University campus to Tweed; and I created the Medical and Educational precinct on the club site.

For eleven years I chaired the Regional Clean Up Australia Day Committee and I have also had the pleasure of chairing Tweed & Coolangatta Tourism Inc, Acid Sulphate Soils Regional Committee and NSW Sustainable Regional Advisory Committee. In 2000 I was honoured as Tweed Shire Council’s Citizen of the Year.

Your friend and ally

Geoff Provest