Michael O’Hara told the commission he stopped paying invoices provided by Jean-Claude Perrottet after feeling then-premier Dominic Perrottet and former prime minister Scott Morrison’s policies were too “woke”.
The commission heard O’Hara felt his payments to Jean-Claude Perrottet, which he understood were aimed to push conservative values inside the Liberal Party, weren’t achieving that goal.
“I may as well support the Greens or Teals, as Dominic has rolled on so many issues instead of prosecuting the principles I believed he stood for,” O’Hara said in an email to Jean-Claude, which Dwyer read onto the record.
He said he felt Dominic Perrottet had gone too far to the left in supporting Matt Kean, the then treasurer, a self-confessed climate change warrior.
“Either he agrees with the woke crap that Matt Kean was going on with, or else he was too weak to bring him into line. Either way he was losing, he was showing he had lost his spine,” O’Hara said.