22 Facts About Walt Secord

Walter Secord was born on 25 December 1964 and is a Canadian-born former Australian politician.

Walt Secord was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from May 2011 to March 2023.

Walt Secord is the NSW patron of the Labor Israel Action Committee.

Walt Secord was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up on the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation in Southern Ontario, Canada.

Walt Secord is a Mohawk-Ojibwe man whose father is a status Indian.

Walt Secord spent the first 17 years of his life on an Indian reserve.

Walt Secord's brother, Dan, is a budding native rights leader in Canada and conducts annual Ojibway language camp ceremonies for native prisoners in Canada's toughest prisons.

Walt Secord was the first member of his father's family to complete high school and the first to fly in an aeroplane.

Walt Secord studied arts at York University in Toronto, and worked as a journalist for the Toronto Star before emigrating to Australia in September 1988.

Walt Secord attained a master's degree in Strategic Public Relations from Sydney University in 2013.

Walt Secord was Bob Carr's communications director at the time of the 1999 state election.

Walt Secord was appointed to a vacancy in the Legislative Council in 2011.

Walt Secord served as Shadow Minister for Health, Shadow Minister for Roads, Shadow Minister for Police, Shadow Minister for Counter Terrorism, Shadow Special Minister of State, Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Shadow Minister for Medical Research, Shadow Minister for Water, Shadow Minister for the Arts and Heritage; Shadow Minister for Liquor Regulation and Shadow Minister for the North Coast.

Walt Secord appointed as Shadow Treasurer, Shadow Minister for the Arts and Shadow Special Minister of State in the shadow cabinet of Jodi McKay in July 2019.

Walt Secord said it was "well-known that Jodi McKay and [he] have disagreed on key policy, parliamentary and strategic decisions and directions", and that he could no longer serve under her.

Walt Secord served as Shadow Minister for the Arts and Heritage, Shadow Minister for Police and Counter Terrorism and Shadow Minister for the North Coast in the NSW Shadow Cabinet until his resignation in August 2022.

In 2022, Walt Secord chaired the official parliamentary inquiry into the historic 2022 floods.

Walt Secord apologised for his behaviour and resigned from the Shadow Ministry on 15 August 2022 in response to the bullying allegations.

Walt Secord retired at the 2023 New South Wales state election.

Walt Secord is the deputy chair of NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel.

Walt Secord has visited Israel multiple times and previously worked for the Australian Jewish News.

Walt Secord described his conversion as "the logical step of a lifelong journey that was inevitable".