Geoff Walsh

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Geoffrey David Walsh AO is an Australian political adviser.

Educated at Caulfield Grammar School and La Trobe University, Walsh worked as a journalist for the Border Mail, Herald Sun, The Age and The Australian Financial Review before serving as an advisor to Australian Labor Party politicians Bob Hawke and Paul Keating during their terms as Prime Minister of Australia. He became a diplomat, working for the International Labour Organization in the United Nations Office at Geneva and later as the Australia Consul-General to Hong Kong. He then worked as the National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party and spent over two years as a government relations consultant.

In 2005, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, "for service to politics as National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party and to the community in the areas of tertiary education and promoting closer ties between Australia and Hong Kong".[1]

Walsh was appointed Chief of Staff to Victorian Premier Steve Bracks in September 2006.

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  1. ^ Australian Honours (2006). WALSH, Geoffrey David. Retrieved July 16, 2006.

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