Geoff Mosley
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John Geoffrey "Geoff" Mosley (born 14 September 1931) was executive director of the
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from 1973 to 1986 and has had a lifelong interest in preserving wilderness. He has since been regularly elected from
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to the Council of the Australian Conservation Foundation as the only candidate in Victoria to receive a quota of
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. In 2005 he was made a Member of the
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in the Queen's Birthday Honours. In June, 2008 he was named as the Individual Award winner in the Australia
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2008 Awards. In 2008, he also became the Australian director of the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.


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