Geoffrey Bruce "Geoff" Squibb (born 27 October 1946) is a former Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician. He was an Independent

Independent (politician)

In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

 member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council

Tasmanian Legislative Council

The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the House of Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart...

 from 1990 to 2003, representing Mersey

Electoral division of Mersey

The Electoral division of Mersey is one of the fifteen constituencies in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The division covers only a small area of 237 km².At the 2009 election, the division had 23,568 enrolled voters....

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Squibb was born in Devonport

Devonport, Tasmania

-Sport:The Devonport Football Club is an Australian Rules team competing in the Tasmanian Statewide League. The Devonport Rugby Club is a Rugby Union team competing in the Tasmanian Rugby Union Statewide League...

, and was its Mayor from 1985–99. In 1990 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Mersey, holding the seat until his defeat by Norma Jamieson

Norma Jamieson

Norma Mary Jamieson was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the electoral division of Mersey from 2003 until 2009. Norma worked as a nurse. Norma is a widow with two children. Her interests include: bushwalking, gardening, farming, tree farming, light aircraft flying,...

, another Independent, in 2003.