Attempts by Shooters party leader Robert Borsak to probe NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s fitness for public office over damaging revelations he wore a Nazi uniform to his 21st birthday party look set to fail.
Borsak hopes to use his position on parliament’s Public Accountability Committee to push for a probe into Mr Perrottet’s fitness to be premier.
“Robert Borsak has his own problems. He has relevance deprivation,” Perrottet said on Monday.
The move looks destined to fail, as NSW shadow treasurer Daniel Moohkey said NSW Labor would not support a referral to the Public Accountability Committee.
“It is clear that the Liberal Party is divided,” Mookhey told reporters. “The premier should explain why this seemingly has come from his own party.”
Borsak also referred Perrottet to police to see if his 2010 preselection declaration broke the law.
He said on Sunday he believed Perrottet might have breached the Oaths Act by failing to reveal the costume incident in his statutory declaration to the Liberal party 13 years ago. It is not publicly known if Perrottet failed to declare the incident because the relevant document remains confidential.
Perrottet will face cabinet colleagues on Monday in the first party room meeting since he revealed the costume scandal.
Read the article by Hannah Wootton in the Financial Review.