CFMEU Construction National Leaders

David Noonan, National Secretary
Lindsay Fraser, Assistant National Secretary
Martin Kingham, Assistant National Secretary
Tommy Watson, National President

Dave Noonan, National Secretary

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.

Lindsay Fraser, Assistant National Secretary

Lindsay Fraser has a long history in the construction industry beginning in 1964 at the McDonald – Brown Carbon Black Site.

His work experience includes general labouring, rigging, dogging and scaffolding on CBD and metropolitan commercial sites, civil and heavy engineering sites, eg. Strathgordon Dam, ICI Olefines, North Rankin A Flare Stack, Australian Newsprint Mill Albury and mining sites including Hamersley Iron Dampier and Tom Price, Gemco Groote Eyelandt and Freeport Indonesia Tembagapura Irian Jaya.

On many of these sites Lindsay was the union delegate and in 1974 worked as a temporary organiser for the NSW BLF. In 1986 he became a temporary organiser for the NSW BWIU and an elected official in 1987.

He held several positions including co-ordinator, OH&S officer, Parramatta office manager before becoming National Vice-President in 1990 and then National Assistant Secretary in 1991. After the series of amalgamations he became Assistant National secretary of the Construction and General Division f the CFMEU.

Lindsay's current Responsibilities are:

• Vocational Education and Trainingincluding director Construction Training Australia, ACTU Training Committee;
• OH&S including, chairperson national OH&S committee, ACTU OH&S committee, chairperson insulation wools advisory board, member standards Australia committees, scaffolding, tilt up construction, demolition and roof edge protection, Worksafe Australia technical review group for the certification of operators;
• Trustee ACTU/Lend Lease foundation.

Lindsay holds Doggers, Riggers and Scaffolders Certificates and a Certificate in Advanced Labour Law from University of Technology Sydney.

Martin Kingham, Assistant National Secretary

Born in Brisbane, Martin worked in the construction industry from age 15 as a labourer. Traveling to England in 1973 he undertook a carpentry apprenticeship in London and worked in the UK construction industry for eight years as a carpenter, union delegate, and occupational health and safety representative.

In the early 1980s, Martin returned to Victoria and worked in the construction industry. He was elected to the Union's Committee of Management and in 1986 was employed by the Union as the Occupational Health and Safety Officer.

Martin was appointed to the position of Assistant Secretary of the Victorian CFMEU in 1991 and went on to be elected to the position of State Secretary, a position he has held since 1993.

In November 2006, he was elected Assistant National Secretary of the CFMEU Construction & General Division. In that role, he has particular responsibility for Health and Safety as the Union's National Occupational Health and Safety Officer.

Martin has been at the forefront of many of the Union's campaigns in Victoria. He has represented the union on the Victorian State Training Board, the Building Industry Group Training Scheme and Victorian Trades Hall Council. He is also an alternate Director of C+BUS - the construction industry superannuation scheme.

Martin enjoys camping, bushwalking and surfing.

Tommy Watson, National President

Tommy Watson was elected unopposed as the National President of the CFMEU Construction and General Division during the May 2007 Divisional Executive.

Tommy is a long term construction worker whose history includes working on the ill-fated Westgate bridge project at the time of it’s tragic collapse.

Tommy has always been a union activist and became a full time officer of the FEDFA in 1990. Tom went on to hold the historic position of the last Secretary of the FEDFA and played a leading role in facilitating the integration of the FEDFA into the Victorian Construction and General branch and is now Assistant Branch Secretary.

Tom is a football fan and proud Demons supporter

United we bargain - Divided we beg.

Contact the National Office, Construction Division at:
Level 12, 276 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000
Ph: 02 8524 5800
Fax: 02 8524 5801
Email: queries@fed.cfmeu.asn.au

Postal address: PO Box Q235, Queen Victoria Building Post Office, Sydney NSW 1230.