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Former ALP dignitaries join the call for a Royal Commission

A group of former federal and state parliamentary ALP dignitaries has called on the Albanese government to establish a...

Walt Secord slams keffiyeh protest

Entertainers Australia-wide have put their names to a protest tomorrow, replicating the keffiyeh wearing on stage, which sparked a...

Shadow Federal Defence Minister Speaks to NSW Jewish community

More than 60 people attended a lunchtime speech and question and answer session with Federal Shadow Defence Minister Andrew...

Walt meets the Chief Rabbi of Iceland

On a study tour of Northern Europe, former NSW Labor frontbencher and former State MP Walt Secord recently met...

A new post for Walt

Following his retirement from politics, Walt Secord has changed his position as a NSW Upper House State Labor to...

Walt Secord revisits historic Broken Hill Synagogue

NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair and State Labor MP Walt Secord last week paid a visit to...

Walt Secord pays tribute to Ilona Lee

NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair and Labor MP Walt Secord has paid tribute in NSW State Parliament...

Walt Secord to quit parliament

NSW upper house Labor MP Walt Secord will not contest the March 2023 election after standing down from the...

Walt gets to shake Joe’s hand

Walt Secord told a Courage to Care event  how strongly the impact of a ‘living witnesses’ of the Holocaust...

Josie Lacey honoured in NSW State Parliament

NSW Labor frontbencher Walt Secord has hosted a special event at State Parliament where he addressed the parliament paying...

NSW Parliament’s Hansard adopts growing consensus on the spelling of “antisemitism”

The NSW Parliament’s Hansard department – which officially records parliamentary proceedings – has adopted the official spelling of “antisemitism”...

Secord calls on arts minister to introduce anti-BDS laws

NSW Shadow Arts Minister Walt Secord has called on the new NSW Arts Minister Ben Franklin to introduce American-style...

NSW Education employee “no longer employed”

NSW Labor frontbencher Walt Secord, NSW Education has confirmed that the employee who posted antisemitic comments alongside a photo...

The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies endorses IHRA definition of antisemitism

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) endorsed the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism and called on the NSW government,...

NSW Multiculturalism Minister supports ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir

In a wide-ranging three-hour NSW Parliamentary hearing on counter-terrorism and prisons on Friday, NSW Shadow Minister for Police and...

NSW Shadow Police Minister Walt Secord quizzes NSW Police on Hizb Ut-Tahrir rally

NSW Police Force has told a State Parliament hearing that a Hizb ut-Tahrir rally in Lakemba – where protestors chanted offensive statements including “destroy the Jews” and “give us the necks of the Jews” – had been referred to its terrorism intelligence unit for assessment and “allocated” to the Fixated Persons’ Unit for further investigation.

Crusader to ban swastikas in NSW refused domestic security improvements by NSW government

NSW Shadow Minister for Police and Counter Terrorism Walt Secord said he was disappointed by the Premier’s department’s rejection of his request for improved security at his home.

Tributes for Gladys

NSW Labor Shadow Minister for Police Walt Secord, who is also deputy chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel has paid tribute to outgoing Premier Gladys Berejiklian saying that “despite being long-time political opponents” he was “deeply saddened to witness her departure”.

NSW Labor approves draft bill to ban swastikas

This week, State Labor unanimously approved a draft bill for public consultation to ban the Nazi flag and swastika in NSW.

A second request to NSW Education Minister to release of information surrounding antisemitic post by education department employee

NSW Labor frontbencher Walt Secord has appealed directly to the Education Minister Sarah Mitchell to intervene and overturn her department’s decision to block for a second time the release of material surrounding an Education department employee who posted antisemitic comments alongside a photo of Adolf Hitler.