Bernard Finnigan

Bernard Finnigan MP was born in Mount Gambier in 1972 and grew up on the family dairy farm at Eight Mile Creek with eleven other brothers and sisters. Bernard attended Allendale East Area School and Tenison College in Mount Gambier and in 1993 received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide. In 1992 at the age of 20, Bernard Finnigan joined the Australian Labor Party, and began work as a union official in 1995 with the South Australian branch of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association; Australia's largest trade union, and in 2000 was assistant secretary; a position he held until 2005...