Leaving school at 16 he migrated by himself to Australia where worked initially as a farm hand, labourer and stockman.
[1] The electorate of Windsor was abolished in the 1992 redistribution and Comben transferred to Kedron in 1992,[2] retiring from parliament in 1995.
In 1999 he was ordained by Archbishop Peter Hollingworth as an honorary deacon of the Anglican Church, and sat on Clarence Valley Council from 2008 to 2012.
[4] Appearing at a subsequent session of the commission, Comben said he had recently signed papers relinquishing holy orders because "some members of the church were trying to rewrite history".
[5] In July 2015, the Professional Standards Board of the Anglican church stripped Mr Comben of his holy orders.