Robert Kenneth "Bob" Sneath (born 24 June 1949) is a former

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, and was a Labor Party member of the

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from 2000 to 2012. Sneath originally worked as a shearer and an organiser with the AWU. He moved to

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in 2004 to become Secretary of the AWU, and was the President of the Naracoorte sub branch of the ALP for six years before becoming an ALP State Executive member and President of the party in 1999. Sneath was

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until his resignation in October 2012.

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