Senior colleagues are backing NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet after revelations he wore a Nazi uniform to his 21st birthday party, despite a leading crossbencher calling for his head.
Several ministers including at least one potential rival for his job are standing by the beleaguered Liberal leader but Shooters, Fishers and Farmers boss Robert Borsak insists Mr Perrottet should go.
“I’m not offended by the actions of Premier Perrottet, I am disgusted,” Mr Borsak said on Friday.
“No amount of grovelling apology can make amends for a flawed personality.”
Mr Borsak, whose Polish father was detained in concentration camps in Poland and Germany even though he was not Jewish, said Mr Perrottet could not apologise his way back to integrity.
“You have none,” he told the premier. “Get out while you still have a chance”.
Mr Perrottet says he has no intention of quitting amid the fallout, after disclosing his controversial costume choice on Thursday amid rumours about the 2003 party.
With the government already hobbled by the departure of multiple MPs in the lead-in to the March state election, other members of the parliamentary crossbench have also expressed disbelief.
“The premier and I are of a similar age and I could not even fathom dressing in that way in any occasion,” Independent MP for Sydney Alex Greenwich told ABC Radio National on Friday.
“There is absolutely no excuse for it”.
Read the article by Farid Farid and Phoebe Loomes in the Crookwell Gazette.