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Hamish Walker is out of the House and on the real estate market.
The disgraced former Clutha-Southland MP has announced that he is joining Harcourts as a real estate salesman in Queenstown.
Walker said he had qualified and worked in real estate before entering Parliament, and was now getting back to his roots.
In July, the then national deputy announced that he would not seek re-election after it was discovered that he had leaked private information about Covid-19 patients to various media outlets.
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The leak followed Walker’s claim that more than 11,000 Indians, Pakistanis and Koreans could be isolated in Queenstown, Dunedin and Invercargill.
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Former Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker is now selling real estate. (File photo)
In the aftermath, he was stripped of his shadow portfolios by then-National Party leader Todd Muller, who called Walker’s actions a “fundamentally appalling mistake.”
Muller resigned from his leadership later that month.
Walker isn’t the only former national congressman now in the real estate business. Former party MP and former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett, who retired in October elections, now works as director of strategic advisory for Bayleys business division in Auckland.
Walker said this week that he was eager to help connect people to the property and spend more time at home.
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Hamish Walker participates in the birdman competition at the 2019 Queenstown Winter Festival.
“I am in the real estate industry to help people achieve their goals and the next stage of life, we love this community and I feel deeply connected to it as I have represented the area in Parliament,” he said in a statement. written.
Harcourts Queenstown CEO Warwick Osborne said Walker was a perfect fit for the company.
“Trust, community and shared values are critical to doing business in Queenstown and at Harcourts Highland Group’s six Otago offices, and Hamish’s deep ties to the region make him an ideal addition to our brand,” he said. Osborne.
