Reid claims to be a Wiradjuri man who was on born 16 August 1992 on Darkinjung country and grew up on the Central Coast.

[4] He said that he decided to run for Parliament while working in the Emergency Department at Wyong Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, seeing people waiting for treatment.

[5] In the 2022 Australian federal election, Reid defeated Liberal incumbent Lucy Wicks in Robertson.

[3] In 2023, Andrew Bolt — a columnist whose views in a different case were controversially found to breach the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 — alleged that Reid had lied about his indigenous heritage.

[7] He is co-chair of Parliamentary friends of the Uluru Statement, a non-partisan group launched on 13 February 2023 to support the "Yes" campaign for the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum, along with the Liberal Party's Bridget Archer and Independent Allegra Spender.