NSW minister Rob Stokes quits as Natasha Maclaren-Jones seeks to replace him in Pittwater

NSW premier Dominic Perrottet and infrastructure minister Rob Stokes, who will resign as the member for Pittwater at the next state election. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

The New South Wales families and communities minister, Natasha Maclaren-Jones, will seek to replace infrastructure minister Rob Stokes as the member for Pittwater at the next election after he announced his intention to resign at the March poll.

Stokes, a senior member of Dominic Perrottet’s cabinet, said on Friday it was time to “make room for a different perspective and a new voice”.