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Dominic Francis Perrottet, an Australian politician, is the New South Wales Treasurer and the Minister for Industrial Relations since January 2017 in the Berejiklian government. Perrottet was elected as the Deputy Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party also in January 2017. He has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the seat of Hawkesbury for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2015.
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- Dominic perrottet the great divorce the costly divide between economic and social policy
- Called to lead dominic perrottet mp
- Early life and background
- Political career
- References
Perrottet has previously served as the Minister for Finance, Services and Property in the second Baird ministry; the Minister for Finance and Services in the first Baird ministry and has represented the seat of Castle Hill between 2011 and 2015.
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Early life and background
Perrottet was born in 1983, and raised in West Pennant Hills, Sydney. He is the third eldest of 12 children. His father, John Perrottet, works for the World Bank as the Global Lead for Tourism at the International Finance Corporation, in Washington, DC.
Perrottet was educated at Redfield College in Dural and Oakhill College in Castle Hill. Perrottet was active in student politics whilst studying commerce and law at Sydney University and campaigned for voluntary student unionism. He went on to work as a commercial lawyer for Henry Davis York in the areas of banking restructuring and insolvency law.
Perrottet was the President of the NSW Young Liberals Movement in 2005 and served on the NSW State Executive of the Liberal Party from 2008–2011.
Political career
Perrottet won preselection in November 2010 with the backing of right wing powerbroker David Clarke. Clarke battled against Alex Hawke, Federal Member for Mitchell, to gain control of preselections.
He was elected to the very safe Liberal seat with a swing of 12.2 per cent and won the seat with 80.8 per cent of the vote on a two party preferred basis following the resignation of previous Liberal MP Michael Richardson. His main opponent was Ryan Tracey, representing Labor.
Following a redistribution of electoral boundaries, Perrottet transferred to the equally safe seat of Hawkesbury at the 2015 state election, while handing Castle Hill to fellow Liberal Ray Williams. He was elected with 68 per cent of the two-party preferred vote.
Due to the resignation of Barry O'Farrell as Premier, and the subsequent ministerial reshuffle by Mike Baird, the new Liberal Leader, in April 2014 Perrottet was appointed as Minister for Finance and Services. Following the 2015 state election, Perrottet was appointed as Minister for Finance, Services and Property in the Second Baird ministry.
Following the resignation of Baird as Premier, 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, Berejiklian and Perrottet were unanimously elected as leader and deputy leader of the NSW Liberal Party.
Later that day, Berejiklian was sworn in as New South Wales' second female Premier. When Berejiklian reshuffled her ministry, Perrottet took over Berejiklian's former ministerial roles as Treasurer and Minister for Industrial Relations, with effect from 30 January 2017.