NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley says he has no more secrets after confessing to two drink-driving convictions.
The NSW Labor leader has admitted he was pinged twice by random breath tests, once in 1993 and again in 2007, just two months out from the March 28 election.
"I believe that this is the one secret in my life that I had to be honest about," he told reporters.
"The skeleton in the closet, this is it."
Mr Foley blew about 0.07 as a 23-year-old after leaving a party in 1993, copping a two-week licence suspension.
He blew 0.085 in 2007 on the way home from a Labor party fundraiser. His licence was suspended for nine months.
Mr Foley, who was elected unopposed as party leader less than two weeks ago after John Robertson's resignation, said he was ashamed of the convictions.
"It's uncomfortable, it's embarrassing, I did the wrong thing," he said.
"It's just the right thing to do for me to front up in the earliest days of my leadership and disclose this."
A News Corp Australia journalist said Mr Foley had confessed to him over coffee on Wednesday.
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