Robert Coombs

Robert Darcy Coombs is an Australian politician and former Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Coombs represented the electorate of Swansea from 2007 to his defeat at the 2011 New South Wales state election.

Career Coombs joined the Australian Merchant Navy in the 1970s, working for six years on BHP vessels sailing out of Newcastle. He joined the Maritime Union of Australia, and eventually rose to become the Sydney Branch Secretary of the Union, then its National President. He also became an Executive Member of Unions NSW. He resigned those roles upon being elected to Parliament.

Coombs was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in March 2007 for the electorate of Swansea.

Coombs was the Caucus chairman. He was also a member of the committee on the Independent Commission Against Corruption and a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters.