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Walt Secord was elected to the NSW Legislative Council in late-May 2011.
 
Born in Canada, Mr Secord graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from York University in Toronto and migrated to Australia in September 1988, becoming an Australian citizen in June 1992.
 
He has worked at the Toronto Star and the Australian Jewish News. In 1991, he won an Australian Human Rights Award for a series of articles he wrote at the Australian Jewish News.

Walt was raised and educated on an Indian reserve – Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation - in southern Ontario, Canada.  He is the product of an inter-racial marriage:  His mother is an Anglo-Canadian and his father is a Treaty Ojibway-Mohawk Indian. They still reside on the Indian reserve and run a craft shop there.
 
Since 1995, Walt has worked for a number of political figures including Bob Carr, Justine Elliot, Kristina Keneally, Eric Roozendaal and Kevin Rudd.
 
Walt is interested in Indigenous issues, community development, aged care, education, the prevention of genocide, inter-faith activity and the abolition of the death penalty.
 

In the Robertson Labor team, Walt is the duty MLC for Camden, Campbelltown, Parramatta, Tamworth, Tweed and Wollondilly.

He has an adult daughter.
 

Electorate Profile

CAMDEN

State:

NSW

Area and Location Description:

228 square kilometres.
From Bringelly Road in the north to Westbrook Road in the south; and from the Nepean River in the west to the Hume Highway in the East.

First Proclaimed/Election:

1858

Demographic Rating:

Outer Metropolitan

Members:

2003 – Present (Geoff) Geoffrey CORRIGAN Australian Labor Party



CAMPBELLTOWN

State:

NSW

Area and Location Description:

199 square kilometres.
From the Hume Highway and Henderson Road in the north to the Dharawal State Conservation Area in the south; and from the Georges River in the west to the Woronora River in the east.

First Proclaimed/Election:

1968

Demographic Rating:

Outer Metropolitan

Members:

2001 – Present Graham James WEST Australian Labor Party



PARRAMATTA

State:

NSW

Area and Location Description:

34 square kilometres.
From Pennant Hills Road in the north to the Western Motorway in the south; and from the Cumberland Highway in the west to Marsden Road in the east.

First Proclaimed/Election:

1856

Demographic Rating:

Inner Metropolitan

Members:

2003 – Present Tanya Rachelle GADIEL Australian Labor Party



TAMWORTH

State:

NSW

Area and Location Description:

16,416 square kilometres.
From the Mount Kaputar National Park in the north to Ben Halls Gap National Park in the south; and from Tambar Springs in the west to Niangala in the east.

First Proclaimed/Election:

1880

Demographic Rating:

Rural

Members:

2003 – Present Peter Ross DRAPER Independent



TWEED

State:

NSW

Area and Location Description:

507 square kilometres.
From the New South Wales and Queensland border in the north to Crabbes Creek in the south; and from the Tweed Valley Way in the west to the New South Wales coast in the east (inclusive of all islands lying off the coast of the

First Proclaimed/Election:

1984

Demographic Rating:

Rural

Members:

2007 – Present Geoff PROVEST Nationals



WOLLONDILLY

State:

NSW

Area and Location Description:

2,607 square kilometres.
From Apple Tree Flat in the north to Yanderra in the south; and from Mount Shivering in the west to Lake Cataract in the east.

First Proclaimed/Election:

1904

Demographic Rating:

Rural

Members:

2007 – Present Phillip COSTA Labor Party



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