I don't claim to know anything about state politics in NSW, but I just saw a clip of Dominic Perrotet speaking and my visceral reaction was "what creepy looking guy. Looks like he could be cast as the sadistic headmaster of private school for boys".
Is he seen as an asset or a liability for the Coalition?
Don’s somewhere in the middle imo. But NSW politics doesn’t exactly have high standards lmfao. And after dealing with Keneally’s horrendous Yankee accent for a few years literally anyone else is a PR improvement.
Middle class voters and Catholics like Dom because he reminds them of their private school values they defend to the death imo tbh jao
Think of him as Pierre Poilievre with an added layer of hardcore Catholicism. So yeah, he's unlikeable. (And he has a Thierry Baudet-type preoccupation w/bulldozing Brutalist buildings.)
That is an incredibly bad description lol. Rather than being some libertarian policy wonk ideological warrior, Don’s defining feature is the fact he has 11 siblings and 7 children. “Dull Suburban Catholic family man” writ large. Fairly pragmatic, big social conscience, knows when to keep his mouth shut etc.
And building old buildings is a 100% bipartisan position across all Australian state parties. Redevelopment brings profit for businesses and jobs for construction unions, a true win-win.
Re the former point: it's more that said "Dull Suburban Catholic family man" persona is the sort that'd make more "normalized" sense 40 years ago w/someone born in 1942, than presently with someone born in 1982. So if you want to know where negative impressions come from, there you go--that is, if we're dealing w/Ottawa-area politicians for comparison points, a more pragmatic and soft-edged "Dull Suburban Catholic family man" comparison point would be Dalton McGuinty; but Perrottet has more of a borderline-Jesusland vibe about him than McGuinty ever had.
And re my latter point: well, if you think there's universal, bipartisan support for this kind of reactionary garbage...
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/ten-iconic-buildings-i-d-bulldoze-by-treasurer-dominic-perrottet-20201124-p56hc5.html
