Greg Combet
Gregory Ivan Greg Combet AM is a former Australian politician and trade unionist. He was Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions between 2000 and 2007. He was elected member for the New South Wales seat of Charlton for the Australian Labor Party at the 2007 election and was immediately appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement in the First Rudd Ministry onDecember 2007. Combet was the Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation in the Second Gillard Ministry before announcing his resignation from the ministry onJune 2013 following Gillards defeat in a leadership ballot. He previously served as Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change, when Penny Wong was the Minister.
Greg Combet was born in Sydney and attended Eastern Creek Primary school, then Rooty Hill High School from yearsto 10. He completed his secondary education at Baulkham Hills High School. He was later educated at the University of New South Wales where he studied mining engineering, and then graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Economics, and a Graduate Diploma in Labour Relations and the Law. He was a project officer for the New South Wales Tenants Union, before working for the Lidcombe Workers Health Centre. In 1987, he was employed by the Waterside Workers Federation, now part of the Maritime Union of Australia.
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