State selection first came for Robberds a month after he turned twelve in 1951, to cox the New South Wales women's four which contested and won the ULVA Trophy at the Interstate Regatta.

[7] For the 1958 Interstate Regatta, Robberds was away with the Australian squad at the Commonwealth Games but in 1959 he was back in the stern of the New South Wales men's eight and steered them to a King's Cup victory.

[9] For the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver as was customary, that year's winning King's Cup eight - Victoria - were invited to represent as the Australian crew.

As the Leichhardt club coxswain of Williamson and Anderson, Robberds aged just fifteen, was selected to cox the four which rowed to a gold medal victory.

[10] Selection racing for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was conducted in January 1958 and New South Wales oarsmen and combinations dominated.

[15] The next men's world championships were held in England in 1976 and again Robberds was selected in the Australian team who competed and placed third overall.

Martin was ranked sixth in the world before Robberds commenced to coach her and she began winning major titles immediately.

She spent 44 months from March 1993 to October 1996 as the best women's squash player in the world before Australia's Sarah Fitz-Gerald broke her dominance.

He was a prosecuting counsel in the 2005 trial of Rodney Adler regarding the collapse of HIH Insurance; for Moses Obeid in the 2012 Independent Commission Against Corruption;[19] and for the Australian Federal Police in the 2014 inquiry into the 1995 conviction of David Harold Eastman for the murder of AFP Assistant Commissioner Colin Winchester.