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Cory Bernardi (born 6 November 1969, Adelaide) is an Australian politician and the author of ''The Conservative Revolution''. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since 2006, representing the state of South Australia. ==Personal life== Bernardi is the son of an Italian immigrant father who came to Australia in 1958.〔("There is something clearly wrong with our current migration system" ), australianconservative.com; accessed 8 December 2014.〕 Cory Bernardi, whose maternal grandfather was a trade unionist and a staunch Labor supporter,〔 was born and raised in Adelaide and attended Prince Alfred College in Kent Town, South Australia. He went on to undertake a business and management course at Adelaide Institute of Technology before winning a scholarship and furthering his rowing career at the Australian Institute of Sport in 1989.〔 Bernardi represented Australia in the sport of rowing in 1988 and 1989. In doing so at the age of 18, he is the youngest person to have represented Australia in the open heavyweight men's division of rowing. Bernardi, rowing in a Mercantile Rowing Club eight, won the Ladies' Challenge Plate at the Henley Royal Regatta in England.〔(History of Mercantile Rowing Club ), rowinghistory-aus.info; accessed 8 December 2014.〕 He also competed at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled (in what was then Yugoslavia and is now the Republic of Slovenia), as part of the coxless four, and came tenth.〔(Bernardi performance in the 1989 World Rowing Championships ), rowinghistory-aus.info; accessed 8 December 2014.〕 Bernardi suffered a back injury later that same year which effectively ended his rowing career.〔 He and his Irish-born wife Sinéad, an economics graduate,〔 have two sons. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cory Bernardi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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