37 Facts About Dominic Perrottet

Dominic Francis Perrottet was born on 21 September 1982 and is an Australian politician who served as the 46th premier of New South Wales from 2021 to 2023.

Dominic Perrottet held office as leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party of Australia, and assumed the position following the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian.

Dominic Perrottet represented Castle Hill from 2011 to 2015 and Hawkesbury from 2015 to 2019.

Dominic 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.

Dominic Perrottet was born in 1982, and raised in West Pennant Hills, Sydney.

Dominic Perrottet was educated at private schools Oakhill College in Castle Hill and Redfield College in Dural.

Dominic Perrottet was active in student politics while studying commerce and law at the University of Sydney and campaigned for voluntary student unionism.

Dominic Perrottet went on to work as a commercial lawyer for Henry Davis York in the areas of banking restructuring and insolvency law.

Dominic 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.

At the 2011 state election, Dominic Perrottet was elected with a swing of 12.2 points, winning 80.8 per cent of the two-party vote.

Dominic Perrottet handed Castle Hill to Williams to run in Williams' equally safe seat of Hawkesbury.

Dominic Perrottet was elected with 68 per cent of the two-party preferred vote.

Berejiklian is from the party's moderate wing, while Dominic Perrottet is from the conservative wing.

Accordingly, on 23 January 2017, Berejiklian and Dominic Perrottet were unanimously elected as leader and deputy leader of the NSW Liberal Party.

When Berejiklian reshuffled her ministry, Dominic Perrottet took over her former ministerial roles as Treasurer and Minister for Industrial Relations, with effect from 30 January 2017.

At the 2019 state election Dominic Perrottet was elected as Member for Epping and reappointed as Treasurer in the second Berejiklian ministry.

An internal note among senior figures in the NSW Treasury in 2018 raised a concern that "a direct line to [Dominic Perrottet] means icare often bypasses Treasury".

Scrutiny of Dominic 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.

Dominic Perrottet advocated strongly for business activity in the face of lockdowns and advice from health officials.

Dominic Perrottet pushed the federal government to reinstate JobKeeper payments for Sydney residents in July 2021 as a new wave of infections was beginning.

Dominic Perrottet opposed his cabinet colleagues and the advice of NSW Health when they extended a COVID lockdown on 7 July 2021.

In early October 2021, after becoming premier, Dominic Perrottet unveiled an accelerated roadmap out of lockdown with some key changes to attendance limits at indoor and outdoor gatherings.

On 3 October 2021, following the resignation of Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Dominic Perrottet was nominated to run as NSW Liberal Party leader, with Stuart Ayres, the Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney, as his deputy.

At 39 years of age, Dominic Perrottet became the youngest premier in New South Wales history, surpassing the previous record held by Nathan Rees, who was 40 when he first took office.

In June 2022 the Dominic Perrottet government announced plans to fly the Aboriginal flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, at the cost of 25 million dollars.

Controversy came from Dominic Perrottet's perceived poor handling of the situation, reports that he told Barilaro to "go for it", and allegations that he promised Transport Minister David Elliott a job outside of politics, some reports stating that he was offered the position of Governor.

On 12 January 2023, Dominic Perrottet revealed that he had worn a Nazi uniform as fancy dress at his 21st birthday, apologising at a media conference after a cabinet minister was made aware of the incident.

At the time, Dominic Perrottet declared he had nothing to disclose that could embarrass the Liberal Party.

Dominic Perrottet conceded the election to Minns and resigned as NSW Liberal leader.

On 19 July 2024, Dominic Perrottet announced his resignation from the NSW parliament to take effect in August, after 13 years of public service.

Dominic Perrottet has been described as both conservative and moderate or liberal.

Dominic Perrottet is the leader of the National Right or right-wing faction of the NSW Liberal Party.

Previously backed to be Premier of NSW by conservative former Prime Minister John Howard, Dominic Perrottet was described by the Australian Financial Review as the "great hope in Australia for political conservatives".

Dominic Perrottet has been described as a conservative Catholic; he voted against decriminalising abortion in 2019 and voluntary euthanasia legislation in 2021.

Dominic Perrottet 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.

Dominic Perrottet is a Catholic, which has influenced many of his political views such as those on abortion.

Dominic Perrottet is a supporter of NRL club the Wests Tigers.