http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/dominic-perrottet/ Dominic grew up in the Hills District and was educated at Redfield College and Oakhill College before graduating from Sydney University with a Commerce/Law degree. Before entering parliament, Dominic worked as a solicitor at Henry Davis York Lawyers in the areas of banking restructuring and insolvency law. At university, Dominic became involved in student politics and served as a member of the Student Representative Council and was elected president of the Sydney University Liberal Club. He was also elected as the President of the NSW Young Liberal Movement and served on the State Executive of the NSW Liberal Party. In March 2011 Dominic was elected as the State Member for Castle Hill and is currently the Chair of the NSW Legislative Assembly Legal Affairs Committee. He is also Joint-Chair of the Sri Lankan Ministerial Consultative Committee. Dominic maintains a close relationship with the various community organisations in the Hills District. He is the founder and co-ordinator of the Hills St Vincent De Paul Young Adults Program, Patron to Community Foundation of North Western Sydney, Patron of the Castle Hill RSL Club, member of the Glenhaven Lions Club and serves on The Hills Australia Day Committee. Dominic is married to Helen and they are the proud parents of Charlotte and Amelia . en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Why-the-Wiggles-pr-debacle-shouldnt-make-us-squirm/ The recent Wiggles interview on the Today Show is worth a look. Now in these matters I am no polemicist. Although I am used to politics, I am neither Team Sam or Team Greg. I have two young daughters who fall into the Sam generation, but most of our Wiggles collections (DVD’s, CD’s, books, toys and even videos) are hand-me-downs from the Greg era. In fact the yellow Wiggle is a source of considerable confusion at home. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Dominic Perrottet) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Why-the-Wiggles-pr-debacle-shouldnt-make-us-squirm/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Why-the-Wiggles-pr-debacle-shouldnt-make-us-squirm/#item7579 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:45:18 +0000 Dominic Perrottet | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Its-tough-its-expensive-but-rehab-really-works/ Rehabilitation works. Just ask Sally*, who first injected heroin at the of 15. By 19, she was injecting four times a day and was working as a prostitute to pay for her habit. This continued until she met a social worker who referred her to a drug rehabilitation clinic. After a tough battle with a few setbacks, Sally is able to live without heroin, and is now completing her second year of a law degree. And this is all thanks to rehabilitation. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Dominic Perrottet) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Its-tough-its-expensive-but-rehab-really-works/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Its-tough-its-expensive-but-rehab-really-works/#item7266 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:55:48 +0000 Dominic Perrottet | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/7-billion-good-reasons-why-the-world-needs-more-people/ Somewhere yesterday in rural India, the world’s 7 billionth person was born. This event, which should be a cause for celebration, will undoubtedly provoke the population prophets of doom to predict impending catastrophe. Last night, Sydney was lucky enough to host the patriarch of the prophets, Professor Paul Ehrlich, who gave an address at UNSW on ‘Population, Environment, and the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere’. Professor Ehrlich made his name at a time of population hysteria, the age of Logan’s Run, the pill and the birth of China’s one-child policy. He is most famous for his 1968 work, The Population Bomb, which predicted immense social upheaval, massive resource shortages and the deaths of hundreds of millions of people from starvation due to a “population explosion”. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Dominic Perrottet) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/7-billion-good-reasons-why-the-world-needs-more-people/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/7-billion-good-reasons-why-the-world-needs-more-people/#item7046 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:35:14 +0000 Dominic Perrottet | Author bios | The Punch