Mark Davis

Mark Davis spent more than 20 years as a journalist covering industrial relations, transport, economics and politics for The Age, The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald. He was a deputy editor of the AFR and a federal vice president and industrial officer for the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, the union and professional organisation for Australian journalists. He has known Greg Combet since 1988. Davis was Combet's media adviser during the negotiation and implementation of the Gillard Government's clean energy reforms to tackle climate change.