Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement
- PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600 - Tel:
- (02) 6277 4771
- Fax:
- (02) 6277 8549
- Email:
- Email Greg
- Suite 2
180 Main Road
Speers Point NSW 2284 - Tel:
- (02) 4958 7111
- Fax:
- (02) 4958 7055
Parliament House Office
Charlton Electorate Office
Biography
The Hon Greg Combet AM MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement and Member for Charlton, is married to Petra and they have 3 children.
Mr Combet grew up in western Sydney and worked as a trades assistant, in coal mining, and in a range of community organisations.
He has university degrees in mining engineering and economics. He also has a graduate diploma in labour relations and the law.
Mr Combet joined the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) in 1993 and was leader of the ACTU from 1999 to 2007. In his work at the ACTU, Mr Combet oversaw numerous national wage cases to secure pay rises for low-paid Australian workers.
Mr Combet also led the union movement in the high profile 1998 waterfront dispute, the union campaign that secured employee entitlements for 16,000 workers after the collapse of Ansett, and the campaign that secured a multi-billion dollar settlement for Australian asbestos victims from James Hardie.
Mr Combet is a former director of Members Equity Bank and the $30 billion fund Australian Super. He was awarded a member of the Order of Australia in 2006.
Greg is Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement in the Rudd Labor Government.
Electorate Profile
State: New South Wales
Name Derivation: Named after Matthew Charlton 1866-1948, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1903-10, Member of House of Representatives 1910-28 and leader of ALP 1922-28.
Area and Location Description: Charlton covers an area of approximately 578 sq km from Rankin Park, Cardiff Heights, Cardiff South and Garden Suburb in the east, encompassing all of Lake Maquarie, then extending south to Wyee, including Mandalong and Martinsville to the west and Seahampton, West Wallsend and Maryland in the north. Main suburbs include, Elermore Vale, Fletcher, Minmi and most of Wallsend in the Newcastle area, Boolaroo, Cardiff, Cooranbong, Edgeworth, Morisset, Speers Point, Toronto, Warners Bay, and Wangi Wangi in the Lake Macquarie area.
Products/Industries of the Area: Light and heavy engineering, timber, textiles, some dairy farms and poultry farming, tourism, coal-mining, electricity, and retailing.
First Proclaimed/Election: 1984
Demographic Rating: Provincial
Members:
- Greg Combet (ALP) 2007-
- Hoare, K (ALP) 1998-2007
- Brown, B (ALP) 1984-1998