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The Honourable
Dominic Perrottet
MP
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Perrottet in 2016
46th Premier of New South Wales
Assumed office
5 October 2021
MonarchElizabeth II
GovernorMargaret Beazley
DeputyPaul Toole
John Barilaro[a]
Preceded byGladys Berejiklian
Leader of the Liberal Party in New South Wales
Assumed office
5 October 2021
DeputyStuart Ayres
Preceded byGladys Berejiklian
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in New South Wales
In office
23 January 2017 – 5 October 2021
LeaderGladys Berejiklian
Preceded byGladys Berejiklian
Succeeded byStuart Ayres
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Epping
Assumed office
23 March 2019
Preceded byDamien Tudehope
Cabinet Positions
65th Treasurer of New South Wales
In office
30 January 2017 – 5 October 2021
PremierGladys Berejiklian
Preceded byGladys Berejiklian
Succeeded byMatt Kean
Minister for Industrial Relations
In office
30 January 2017 – 2 April 2019
PremierGladys Berejiklian
Preceded byGladys Berejiklian
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Minister for Finance, Services and Property[b]
In office
17 April 2014 – 23 January 2017
PremierMike Baird
Preceded byAndrew Constance
Succeeded byVictor Dominello
Electorates
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Hawkesbury
In office
28 March 2015 – 23 March 2019
Preceded byRay Williams
Succeeded byRobyn Preston
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Castle Hill
In office
26 March 2011 – 28 March 2015
Preceded byMichael Richardson
Succeeded byRay Williams
Personal details
Born (1982-09-21) 21 September 1982 (age 39)
West Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)Helen Perrottet
Children6
ResidenceBeecroft, New South Wales[1]
EducationRedfield College
Oakhill College
Alma materUniversity of Sydney (LLB, BCom)[2]
Occupation
  • Lawyer
  • Politician
CabinetFirst (since 2021)
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Dominic Francis Perrottet (/ˈpɛroʊteɪ/ PERR-oh-TAY; born 21 September 1982) is an Australian politician who is currently serving as the 46th Premier of New South Wales and Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party. He assumed office on 5 October 2021 following the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian.

Perrottet previously served as Treasurer and deputy leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from January 2017 to October 2021,[3] and is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the seat of Epping since 2019. He represented Castle Hill from 2011 to 2015 and Hawkesbury from 2015 to 2019.[4] Perrottet served as Minister for Industrial Relations in the first Berejiklian ministry and as Minister for Finance, Services and Property in the first and second Baird ministries.[5][6][7]

Early life and background

Perrottet (Pez) was born in 1982, and raised in West Pennant Hills, Sydney.[8] He is the third-oldest of 12 children.[9] His father, John Perrottet, works for the World Bank as the Global Lead for Tourism at the International Finance Corporation, in Washington, DC.[10] Perrotet's family were members of the Catholic prelature, Opus Dei.[11]

Perrottet was educated at private schools Redfield College in Dural and Oakhill College in Castle Hill. Perrottet was active in student politics while studying commerce and law at the University of Sydney and campaigned for voluntary student unionism.[12] He went on to work as a commercial lawyer for Henry Davis York in the areas of banking restructuring and insolvency law.[8]

Perrottet was the President of the NSW Young Liberals Movement in 2005 and served on the NSW State Executive of the Liberal Party from 2008 to 2011.[13]

Political career

Early career

Following the resignation of sitting Liberal MP Michael Richardson, Perrottet won Liberal preselection for the very safe Liberal seat of Castle Hill in November 2010, with the backing of right-wing power broker David Clarke.[14] Clarke battled against Alex Hawke, Federal Member for Mitchell, to gain control of preselections.[15][16] At the 2011 state election, Perrottet was elected with a swing of 12.2 per cent, and won 80.8 per cent of the vote on a two party preferred basis.[17]

With the resignation of Barry O'Farrell as Premier,[18] and the subsequent ministerial reshuffle by Mike Baird, the new Liberal Leader,[7] Perrottet was appointed as Minister for Finance and Services in April 2014.[4][19][20]

Following a redistribution of electoral boundaries, Perrottet traded seats with fellow Liberal Ray Williams for the 2015 state election. Perrottet handed Castle Hill to Williams to run in Williams' equally safe seat of Hawkesbury.[21] Perrottet was elected with 68 per cent of the two-party preferred vote.[22]

After the resignation of Baird as Premier,[23] the main factions of the NSW Liberals agreed to support his deputy, Gladys Berejiklian, as his successor, with Perrottet as her deputy. Berejiklian is from the party's moderate wing, while Perrottet is from the conservative wing. Accordingly, on 23 January 2017, Berejiklian and Perrottet were unanimously elected as leader and deputy leader of the NSW Liberal Party.[24] Later that day, Berejiklian was sworn in as New South Wales' second female Premier.[25][26][27] When Berejiklian reshuffled her ministry, Perrottet took over her former ministerial roles as Treasurer and Minister for Industrial Relations, with effect from 30 January 2017.[5]

In the lead up to the 2019 state election, Perrottet attempted to wrest Castle Hill back from Williams, citing work-life balance as Hawkesbury was too far for him to travel. This was unsuccessful, with Williams retaining the Liberal preselection, and resulted in media reports of significant party infighting and Perrottet publicly apologising. Eventually, Perrottet abandoned the Hawkesbury preselection, and he settled on his second-choice, the equally safe seat of Epping.[28][29][30] At the 2019 state election Perrottet was elected as Member for Epping and reappointed as Treasurer in the second Berejiklian ministry.[31]

As Treasurer, Perrottet oversaw proposed reforms which may replace once-off, tiered upfront stamp duties with perpetual annual land taxes. Should these reforms be legislated, the land tax system may have the potential to eliminate current duty concessions and exemptions which offer limited assistance to home buyers with no prior property ownership. When coalesced with continual rate of sustained property price rises in the Sydney Metropolitan area and more recently in certain NSW Regional centres, first time home ownership may perpetually become prohibitive.[32][33]

icare controversy

Perrottet’s record as NSW Treasurer was marred by allegations that his department mismanaged the state’s workers compensation scheme, icare. A combined investigation by The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and ABC TV’s Four Corners found that icare had underpaid as many as 52,000 injured workers by up to $80 million and that the organisation was close to collapse.[34] Following the investigation, NSW’s workers' compensation regulator State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) announced in August 2020 that it would be applying increased scrutiny to icare’s 2020 financial audit.[35] icare was also accused of improperly handling private sector contracts. The Information and Privacy Commission NSW found that icare had not publicly registered 422 contracts since 2015, each worth more than $150,000. These contracts include some being awarded without a competitive tender to companies associated with Liberal Party figures, such as marketing firm IVE Group being awarded millions of dollars in contracts. IVE Group is run by former NSW Liberal party president Geoff Selig.[36]

An internal note among senior figures in the NSW Treasury in 2018 raised a concern that “a direct line to [Perrottet] means icare often bypasses Treasury”. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on the note in 2020 and noted that other concerns raised included icare’s non-compliance with recruitment policies and limited disclosures of capital expenditures. Scrutiny of Perrottet’s close relationship with icare prompted him to direct Treasury Secretary Michael Pratt to audit the Treasurer’s staffing arrangements, which the NSW Labor Party criticised as a “sham” as the Secretary was a former deputy chairman of icare.[37][38]

In April 2021, NSW Parliament's Law and Justice Committee tabled its 2020 review of the Workers' Compensation Scheme. The report highlighted the deteriorating financial position of the scheme, a fall in return to work rates and an increase in claim costs, including medical expenses. The Committee’s chairman said “icare's decision and ambitious approach to implementing a new claims management model has also played a role, to the detriment of injured workers and the public”. A statutory review by the NSW Government was released on the same day, with the reviewer the Hon Robert McDougall QC saying execution of the program was "sloppy" and “the result of these shortcomings was that procurements for the [Nominal Insurer] — often involving very large sums of money — were conducted on an opaque basis".[39]

COVID-19 pandemic

Perrottet advocated strongly for business activity in the face of lockdowns and advice from health officials. During the northern beaches lockdown at the end of 2020, he suggested that the state’s Chief Health Officer, Kerry Chant, take a pay cut if Sydney or its suburbs were unnecessarily locked down.[40] Perrottet also pushed the federal government to reinstate JobKeeper payments for Sydney residents in July 2021 as a new wave of infections was beginning.[41]

As Treasurer, Perrottet has been one of the architects of the JobSaver program and has overseen micro business support payments, payroll tax waivers and deferrals, vouchers for spending in CBD businesses and other support for businesses affected by the epidemic.[42][43][44]

Perrottet also fervently opposed his cabinet colleagues and the advice of NSW Health when they extended a COVID lockdown on 7 July 2021.[45]

Premier of New South Wales

Further information: 2021 Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division) leadership election and Perrottet ministry

On 3 October 2021, following the resignation of Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Perrottet nominated to run as NSW Liberal Party leader, with Stuart Ayres, the Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney, as his deputy. Having struck a deal with party powerbrokers, he was elected leader by the Liberal party room when it met on 5 October, and was sworn in as premier later that day.[46] At 39 years of age, Perrottet became the youngest premier in New South Wales history, surpassing the previous record held by Nathan Rees.[47]

Political positions

Perrottet is a member of the conservative right faction of the NSW Liberal Party, and was backed to be Premier of NSW by conservative former Prime Minister John Howard.[48] He was described by the Australian Financial Review as the "great hope in Australia for political conservatives".[49] Perrottet is a traditional Catholic; he voted against decriminalising abortion in 2019 and reportedly will vote against voluntary euthanasia legislation when it is introduced in New South Wales Parliament in October 2021.[50][43]

Perrottet praised the US election of Donald Trump in a 2016 Facebook post, saying it represented "a victory for people who have been taken for granted by the elites of the political establishment" and that it was "time for a conservative spring".[43]

In his maiden speech to New South Wales Parliament in 2011 he stated a belief in "exercising freedom [so] that individuals can develop the habits of generosity, hard work, fairness and concern for others". He also stated that traditionalism and libertarianism are both "vital and necessary strands of the fabric of conservative thought" and that the Liberal Party should embrace both. He stated opposition to "more social engineering, more welfare handouts... more government spending and intervention in our lives".[51]

Personal life

Perrottet is a conservative Catholic and has six children with his wife, Helen.[50][52]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ Until 6 October 2021
  2. ^ When appointed to the cabinet position, the portfolio was called: “Minister for Finance and Services”.

Citations

  1. ^ Deare, Steven (25 September 2018). "Epping Liberal MP Damien Tudehope makes way for Dominic Perrottet". Northern District Times. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021.
  2. ^ Bharadwaj, Angira (5 October 2021). "Dom Perrottet: Get to know your new Premier". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 5 October 2021.
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  4. ^ a b "The Hon. Dominic Francis Perrottet MP". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
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  6. ^ Hasham, Nicole (3 April 2015). "Premier Mike Baird's new NSW cabinet sworn in: Gladys Berejiklian and Gabrielle Upton first female Treasurer and Attorney-General". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  7. ^ a b Nicholls, Sean (22 April 2014). "Mike Baird's cabinet reshuffle a preparation for next election". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  8. ^ a b Reece, Heloise (16 November 2010). "Castle Hill says hello to new Liberals' choice". Hills News. Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
  9. ^ "NSW Finance Minister Dominic Perrottet owes it all to his mother". Australian Financial Review. 7 October 2014. Archived from the original on 15 August 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  10. ^ Hyland, Anne (29 November 2019). "NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet: lessons from my father, John". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 5 October 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  11. ^ Gardner, Stephanie (10 August 2017). "Jean Claude Perrottet found not guilty". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 5 October 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021 – via Hawkesbury Gazette. Mr Perrottet, who comes from a large family belonging to the conservative Catholic order Opus Dei
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  38. ^ Smith, Alexandra (10 August 2020). "Perrottet's staff audit over icare labelled a 'sham'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
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New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
 Member for Castle Hill
2011–2015 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
 Member for Hawkesbury
2015–2019 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
 Member for Epping
2019–present 		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
 Minister for Finance, Services and Property
2014–2017 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
 Minister for Industrial Relations
2017–2019 		Succeeded by
Treasurer of New South Wales
2017–2021 		Succeeded by
Premier of New South Wales
2021–present 		Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by
 Deputy Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party
2017–2021 		Succeeded by
Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party
2021–present 		Incumbent

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