Requested final Wednesday if he was assured in representing the seat of Citadel Hill subsequent 12 months, Elliott replied: “I’m only a suburban dad making an attempt to proper a couple of wrongs.”
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet stated Elliott had his assist because the candidate for Citadel Hill regardless of his personal hard-right faction taking part in a task in Elliott’s choice to depart politics.
Perrottet stated the retirement of Elliott and eight different senior MPs forward of the March election was a “pure half politics” and renewal throughout election cycles.
“I spoke to David late final evening who suggested me of his choice,” Perrottet stated. “I inspired him to remain.
“I feel it’s important that new blood comes via. I feel it’s good for renewal.”
Requested if the resignation of 9 senior MPs was an indication of rats leaving a sinking ship and whether or not he deliberate a Cupboard reshuffle, he stated: “I’ll take into account these issues in the end.”
Previous to holding the Transport and Veterans portfolios, Elliott additionally served because the NSW Police, Counterterrorism and Emergency Providers Minister.
He thanked the state’s 200,000 police and corrections officers, firefighters and different emergency companies personnel in his assertion. The minister additionally thanked his employees, who he stated “deserve the Victoria Cross”.
Elliott was first elected to parliament in 2011 and joins a rising record of senior MPs and ministers quitting state politics forward of subsequent 12 months’s election. Infrastructure Minister Rob Stokes, Buyer Service Minister Victor Dominello, and Corrections Minister Geoff Lee are additionally quitting.
Former attorney-general Gabrielle Upton and Riverstone MP Kevin Conolly will even bid farewell to Macquarie Road.
Recognized for his crash-or-crash-through fashion of politics, Elliott gained notoriety in 2018 after utilizing parliamentary privilege to allege then Labor chief Luke Foley had harassed a journalist at a CBD bar.
He additionally sparred together with his personal authorities MPs, earlier this 12 months attacking Treasurer Matt Kean for his intervention within the extended rail industrial dispute.
Elliott has this 12 months been on the centre of the federal government’s industrial dispute with rail unions. Whereas creating a powerful rapport with union representatives via the early months of the long-running dispute, the connection has since deteriorated.
Elliott in September stated the union had “shat on me from an ideal top”.
