d. 29 Oct. 1997. Economist, activist on behalf of Aboriginal Australians.
His Problems of a high employment economy, 1944.
H. C. "Nugget" Coombs interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection, October 16, 1969 (Herbert Carl Coombs. I was born in Kalamunda, Western Australia in 1906)
His Aboriginal autonomy, 1994 CIP t.p. (H.C. Coombs) data sheet (b. Feb. 24, 1906) foreword (Nugget Coombs)
Rowse, T. Nugget Coombs, 2002 p. 354 (d. Oct. 29, 1997 in a Sydney nursing home at the age of ninety-one)
Literature Resource Center, viewed June 19, 2014 $b (Herbert Cole Coombs; Australian Economist (1906 - 1997); Born February 24, 1906, in Kalamunda, Australia; died October 29, 1997, in Sydney, Australia; Education: University of Western Australia, B.A. (with honors), 1930, M.A., 1931; London School of Economics and Political Science, London, Ph.D., 1933; governor of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for twenty years)