The Honourable Dominic Perrottet MP |
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63rd Treasurer of New South Wales | |
Assumed office 30 January 2017 |
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Premier | Gladys Berejiklian |
Preceded by | Gladys Berejiklian |
Minister for Industrial Relations | |
Assumed office 23 January 2017 |
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Premier | Gladys Berejiklian |
Preceded by | Gladys Berejiklian |
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Hawkesbury |
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Assumed office 28 March 2015 |
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Preceded by | Ray Williams |
Majority | 10.4% (2015) |
Deputy Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party | |
Assumed office 23 January 2017 |
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Leader | Gladys Berejiklian |
Preceded by | Gladys Berejiklian |
Minister for Finance, Services and Property | |
In office 2 April 2015 – 30 January 2017 |
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Premier | Mike Baird |
Preceded by | Andrew Constance (as Minister for Finance and Services) |
Succeeded by | Victor Dominello |
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Castle Hill |
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In office 26 March 2011 – 28 March 2015 |
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Preceded by | Michael Richardson |
Succeeded by | Ray Williams |
Personal details | |
Born | West Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia |
Nationality | Australian |
Political party | Liberal Party of Australia |
Spouse(s) | Helen Perrottet |
Children | Four |
Alma mater | University of Sydney |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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.
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.
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.