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David Clune, Honorary Associate, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney

It'll be tough for Perrottet to win the NSW election. But Labor won't romp home either

Dominic Perrottet Labor Barry OFarrell Gladys Berejiklian Chris Minns Coalition ICAC Bob Carr Daryl Maguire Matt Kean

At the New South Wales election on March 25 a 12-year-old Coalition government will be seeking re-election.

Hoping to return as premier is Liberal leader Dominic Perrottet – a political conservative and devout Catholic with seven children, who was this week forced to respond to allegations aired on Four Corners about curriculum concerns at a Sydney school linked to Catholic group Opus Dei. Perrottet attended Redfield College, one of the schools featured in the the ABC report.

It is just the latest headache for Perrottet, leader of a government whose 12-year term in office has only been exceeded in NSW by Labor from 1941-65 and 1995-2011.

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