Trevor Perrett

Trevor John Perrett (2 August 1941 – 10 July 2022) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1988 to 1998, representing the electorate of Barambah. 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.

Post politics
In 2021, the Townsville Child Protection Investigation Unit Historical Team charged Parrett with 25 counts of historical child sexual abuse, including one count of rape. All incidents involved a single girl under the age of 14 over a two-year period in the 1970s. In 2022, the case quietly disappeared from the Queensland legal system when the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions determined it did not have a strong enough chance for success.

Perrett passed away in 2022.