Life Before Entering Parliament
Cobb was born in Bathurst, son of Lee and Mary Cobb, and was raised on the family property near Mount Hope, New South Wales.
From the 1980s until his candidacy for Federal Parliament, Cobb was active in, and spent three years as President of, the New South Wales Farmers Association, a lobby group representing farmers and rural and regional communities. He also continued to farm the family property. In 2000, an accident on the farm (Cobb was not present at the time) claimed the life of an employee, Kenneth Johnson. Charges were laid against Cobb as Johnson's employer, resulting in a conviction and fine being imposed, not long after Cobb was elected to Parliament.
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