leaving parliament, Combet has worked as a consultant to unions, governments and business and as a company director. Combet works primarily with industry superannuation funds and in December 2018 became chair of Industry Super Australia and Chair of IFM Investors, a global asset management business owned by the industry superannuation funds. In 2020, in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Combet was appointed to "provide strategic and policy advice" for the Liberal Morrison Government. Combet, writing in The Guardian in late‑2021, describes Australia's failed climate policies and argues that a sensible energy transition is indeed possible. Personal life On 12 June 2006, Combet was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to industrial relations and through advocacy for the improved health and safety of workers, including people affected by asbestos-related diseases, and to the community. Combet is separated from his second wife and in 2012 began a relationship with ABC-TV newsreader Juanita Phillips. Combet is the son of a winemaker and grew up on the Penfolds Minchinbury Estate in western Sydney. He is well known for breeding Gouldian finches. In 2014, Combet published his autobiography The Fights of My Life. In the 2007 ABC-TV series Bastard Boys, dramatising the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute, in which Combet was heavily involved, the role of Combet was played by Daniel Frederiksen. See also First Rudd Ministry First Gillard Ministry Second Gillard Ministry References External links Profile at NSW Labor Party Greg Combet at OurCampaigns.com Profile at ABC News The Hon Greg Combet AM MP speech to the National Press Club of Australia Profile at ACTU Your Rights At Work 1958 births Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia Australian mining engineers Australian trade unionists Government ministers of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Charlton Members of the Cabinet of Australia Members of the Order of Australia People educated at Baulkham Hills High School Politicians from Sydney University of New South Wales alumni University of Sydney alumni 21st-century Australian politicians