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Christopher (Chris) John Meibusch (born 5 December 1958) is a social campaigner based in Toowoomba Queensland.

In 2007, Chris was the Australian Labor Party Candidate for the Federal Electorate of Groom achieving a significant two party preferred (2PP) swing of 10.59 % against the then sitting Liberal MP, Ian [./Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Macfarlane%20(politician) Macfarlane].

At the 2010 Federal Election, Chris suffered a negative 10.31% 2PP swing to Ian Macfarlane and then announced his retirement from politics.

Between 1988 and 2013, Chris worked as a lawyer and was a partner in various Toowoomba law firms and served as President of the Downs and South Western Law Association.

In 2014-2015, Chris worked as a volunteer through Australian Volunteers [./Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Volunteers%20International Australian Volunteers International] in the South Pacific nation of Kiribati. Working in the Office of the Peoples Lawyer, Kiribati.

Over the years, Chris’ campaigns have included victims compensation legislation, injured foreign nationals, 5. trading hours for licences premises, domestic violence legislation.

Since 2017, Chris has led the Save Mt Lofty campaign for the protection of critical koala habitat land on the site of the old rifle range at Mt Lofty Toowoomba.

The Mt Lofty site is the subject of a development application for a proposed 341 lot residential development by Defence Housing Defence Housing Australia.

Chris is married with two adult daughters.