FYI Perrottet is reported to be on a fast track, perhaps to make Sydney Great Again after the shutdown by privatising everything he cannd pursuing tax reform.
Said to ask Keating advice from time to time.
Perrottet has made no secret of his admiration for Keating, whose counsel he seeks from time to time, while Keating appears to see something of himself in Perrottet’s appetite for risk in pursuit of bold reform. “You don’t get into politics to stay still, you get into politics to reform,” Perrottet declared in 2017.
“What Perrottet and I have in common is we regard public life as a vocation, not an occupation,” Keating told the Herald. “He understands that political authority in the end goes to people who make the big policy decisions, it does not go to people who do well in news management.
Perrottet has been a driving force inside the Board of Treasurers, a forum for state and territory treasurers (which deliberately excludes their federal counterpart) to “advance national reform priorities from a state and territory perspective”.
In 2019 Perrottet used the budget to push for sweeping change, labelling federal-state financial relations “a mess” that penalised the “reforming states”.
“States that do nothing to strengthen their economies reap windfall gains from other states that do,” he said. “This is not a system that’s fit for purpose. And NSW can no longer wait for others to act.”
