Trevor Perrett

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix =

|name = Trevor Perrett

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| constituency_AM1 = Barambah

| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative

| term_start1 = 14 April 1988

| term_end1 = 13 June 1998

| predecessor1 = Joh Bjelke-Petersen

| successor1 = Dorothy Pratt

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|8|2}}

|birth_place = Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2022|07|10|1941|08|02}}

|death_place = Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia

|restingplace =

|birthname = Trevor John Perrett

|nationality = Australian

|party = Nationals

|otherparty = Citizens Electoral Council

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| children = Tony Perrett

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Trevor John Perrett (2 August 1941{{spaced ndash}}10 July 2022) was an Australian politician.{{cite news |title=Obituary: Trevor Perrett 1941-2022 |url=https://southburnett.com.au/news2/2022/07/11/obituary-trevor-perrett-1941-2022/ |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=South Burnett Online |date=11 July 2022}} He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1988 to 1998, representing the electorate of Barambah.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=800476961|accessdate= 1 February 2015}} 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.

Perrett was Minister for Primary Industries, Fisheries and Forestry in the government of Rob Borbidge from 1996 to 1998, 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.{{cite news |last1=Bray |first1=Hillary |title=Rodent's jaunt and Nauruan snub |url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2002/06/16/rodents-jaunt-and-nauruan-snub/?wpmp_switcher=mobile&wpmp_tp=1 |accessdate=2019-01-06 |work=Crikey |date=2002-06-16}}{{cite journal |last1=Wanna |first1=John |title=Queensland January to June 1998 |journal=Australian Journal of Politics and History |date=December 1998 |volume=44 |issue=4 |page=590 |doi=10.1111/1467-8497.00040 |url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:239938/AJPH_Political_Chronicles_Qld_1998_44_4.pdf |accessdate=2019-01-06}}