David Feeney
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The Honourable David Feeney MP |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Batman | |
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Assumed office 7 September 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Martin Ferguson |
| Senator for Victoria | |
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In office 1 July 2008 – 12 August 2013 |
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| Born |
5 March 1970 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Liberty Sanger |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Monash University |
| Occupation | Politician |
David Ian Feeney (born 5 March 1970) is an Australian politician. He is the Labor member for the House of Representatives seat of Batman, which he won at the 2013 federal election. He was previously a Labor Senator for Victoria from 2008 to 2013. From 2010 to 2013, Feeney was Parliamentary Secretary for Defence.
Feeney was born in Adelaide. His father migrated from Northern Ireland. Raised Catholic, he attended Mercedes College, Adelaide before moving to Melbourne, where he attended Monash University, gaining a master's degree in Public Policy.
He worked in the national office of the Transport Workers Union, and for Ian Baker, a Labor member of the Victorian Parliament. Feeney is a prominent member of the right-wing Labor Unity faction and is linked with the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA). Feeney served as Victorian State Secretary of the Labor Party and State Labor Campaign Director from March 1999 to December 2002, where he enjoyed considerable success as a fund-raiser and campaign director. Despite this, he was dismissed in 2002 as a result of a change in factional alignments within the party.
Feeney then worked for the Labor Victorian Premier, Steve Bracks, as Director of Strategy, and was the Campaign Director for Labor during the 2006 South Australian state election. The re-elected Labor Premier, Mike Rann, referred to him in his victory speech as "my Eisenhower." During the 2007 federal election campaign Feeney was Labor's Assistant National Secretary, in charge of marginal seat campaigning. In December 2006 he supported Kevin Rudd's successful challenge to the leadership of Kim Beazley.
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