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David Combe

David Combe
National Secretary of the
Australian Labor Party
In office
10 July 1973 – 28 July 1981
Preceded byMick Young
Succeeded byBob McMullan
Personal details
Born
Harvey David Mathew Combe

(1943-04-26)26 April 1943
Adelaide, South Australia
Died21 September 2019(2019-09-21) (aged 76)
Spouse(s)Meena Blesing, Maggie Gilchrist
Residence(s)Sydney, Australia
EducationPrince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide
OccupationPolitical official, lobbyist, Australian Trade Commissioner in Canada and Hong Kong
Known forNational Secretary, Australian Labor Party and involvement in a Russian spy scandal in 1983

Harvey David Mathew Combe (26 April 1943 – 21 September 2019) was National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), a political consultant and lobbyist, an Australian Trade Commissioner, a Senior Vice-President International of Southcorp Wines, and a consultant to the Australian wine industry. He achieved a degree of unwanted prominence through the Combe-Ivanov affair of 1983.


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