There are at least four questions about Dominic Perrottet’s Nazi costume, only one of which as yet has an answer. They are: Where is the photo? Does it even exist? If it does, is someone holding it back hoping to inflict more damage on the New South Wales premier by releasing it closer to the March 25 election? And why, almost 20 years after the 21st birthday party at which Perrottet wore the uniform, have we only recently heard about it?
We know about the uniform because he confessed at a press conference to wearing it and has since made a succession of grovelling apologies, particularly to Jewish groups, for the “terrible, terrible mistake” of his youth.
Although he said he did not know if any picture existed, he clearly was not prepared to bet against the rumours that there was one. So, after holding his guilty secret for all those years, prompted by the fear of exposure, he finally owned up.
Read the article by Mike Seccombe in The Saturday Paper.