Dave Noonan was born in Western Australia in 1964. He moved to Melbourne 1985 and started work as a builder's labourer the same year.
Before that, Dave worked at various jobs, including deckhand on fishing boats trawling the WA\NT coast; as a labourer in brickworks and landscape gardening.
He was elected as an organiser with the Building Workers Industrial Union (BWIU) in 1988.
He has been a member of the CFMEU Victoria Branch Management Committee and of the National Conference of the Union.
Dave organised many major sites, including the Melbourne Cricket Ground Southern Stand, Mobil's Altona Refinery and the Melbourne Museum; as well as areas of CFMEU coverage outside the building industry such as painters at the Anzac Frigate Project at Williamstown Dockyards. He has been an advocate for CFMEU Victoria in the AIRC and represented the Branch on the Victorian Trades Hall Executive and in other labour movement forums.
Dave became Assistant National Secretary of the CFMEU Construction & General Division in 2002. His responsibilities include overseeing the Union's national industrial work.
Dave watches most sports, particularly AFL and supports the West Coast Eagles.
He is also a keen reader of fiction, politics, history and biography.
