Trevor Perrett

Trevor Perrett
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Barambah
In office
14 April 1988 – 13 June 1998
Preceded byJoh Bjelke-Petersen
Succeeded byDorothy Pratt
Personal details
Born
Trevor John Perrett

(1941-08-02)August 2, 1941
Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
Died10 July 2022(2022-07-10) (aged 80)
Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
Political partyNationals
Other political
affiliations		Citizens Electoral Council
ChildrenTony Perrett

Trevor John Perrett (2 August 1941 – 10 July 2022) was an Australian politician.[1] He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1988 to 1998, representing the electorate of Barambah.[2] Perrett was elected at the 1988 Barambah state by-election as an independent candidate. (He had previously been a member of the Citizens Electoral Council.) In December 1988 he switched to the Nationals. He represented the seat until his defeat by One Nation candidate Dorothy Pratt at the 1998 state election.[2]

Perrett was Minister for Primary Industries, Fisheries and Forestry in the government of Rob Borbidge from 1996 to 1998,[2] but was caught out having a sexual relationship lasting several years with a prostitute, Colleen Jefferies, who was found dead in her Brisbane home in 1996 in suspicious circumstances.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Obituary: Trevor Perrett 1941-2022". South Burnett Online. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  3. ^ Bray, Hillary (16 June 2002). "Rodent's jaunt and Nauruan snub". Crikey. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  4. ^ Wanna, John (December 1998). "Queensland January to June 1998" (PDF). Australian Journal of Politics and History. 44 (4): 590. doi:10.1111/1467-8497.00040. Retrieved 6 January 2019.