Former premier Dominic Perrottet will resign from parliament and move his family to Washington DC for a new role.
Byelections will be held for Perrottet’s seat of Epping and Matt Kean’s seat of Hornsby later this yearDominic Perrottet says he will never shake the image of a huge queue of people outside a Centrelink office in Ryde. It was the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the then-treasurer was heading home from Sydney Olympic Park after a daily crisis cabinet meeting. The enormity of the challenge the Coalition government was facing floored him.
Perrottet became the youngest premier in NSW history when the then 39-year-old secured the Liberal Party leadership following the sudden September 2021 resignation of Gladys Berejiklian. His highly competent chief of staff Nigel Freitas fell on his sword; Perrottet survived. Ultimately, he says, it was the making of him.“I learnt that implementation is important,” he said. “This is not the private sector, where you just drive through the change in the interests of either shareholders or in the interests of the business. There is public scrutiny, and while you believe what you are doing is right, ultimately, implementation and public confidence is incredibly crucial.
“You can’t be held for the sins of the past and ultimately, I think everybody makes mistakes in life. And that was a mistake as a young person at a different time,” he said. “To be frank, I was more concerned about the Jewish community who I have always been an incredibly strong supporter of and I was personally touched by their sense of forgiveness.”
“I was particularly concerned about mental health in young children, and the educational outcomes for not being in school.” Perrottet stuck to his promise, and ensured children were back in the classrooms on the first day of term one 2022. “But I’d much prefer in public life to make a mistake doing something than make the mistake of doing nothing at all and being a passenger in political life.”
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