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Noonan studied at Parade College and the Swinburne University of Technology.
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Wade Noonan
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He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since September 2007, representing the electorate of Williamstown. He has been Minister for Police and Minister for Corrections in the Andrews ministry since December 2014. He worked as a travel manager for STA Travel from 1990 to 1996, before becoming involved in the union movement.
He worked as an organiser for the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association from 1996 to 2002, before shifting to the Transport Workers Union of Australia, where he became federal assistant secretary and federal organising and training officer
He remained in this role until his election to parliament. Noonan"s father, Bill Noonan, is a long-time TWU official and Victorian state secretary.
In July 2007, Steve Bracks, the then Premier of Victoria and member for the safe Labor seat of Williamstown, suddenly announced his intention to retire from politics. He was elected on 15 September 2007, defeating Greens candidate, former City of Maribyrnong mayor and future Senator Janet Rice.
On 8 February 2016, Noonan announced he would be taking a three-month leave of absence from his ministerial and parliamentary positions to undergo counselling due to exposure to traumatic incidents in his work as police minister.
