Peggy Dwyer, SC, has opened the public hearing today by challenging Jeremy Greenwood’s previous evidence about Anita Perrottet’s work for his consultancy firms.

Greenwood previously told the ICAC that Perrottet was a sounding board who gave advice for Greyhound Racing NSW to boost its public image. Dwyer presented documents to Greenwood that show advice he said she came up with was well in use by the industry prior.

“You specifically told this commission last week that Anita Perrottet came up with the term ‘zero unnecessary euthanasia’, and I’m saying to you, Mr Greenwood, you outsmarted yourself by coming up with that false evidence when it’s clearly a term used in a document years earlier. Do you accept that?” Dwyer asked.

Greenwood rejected her suggestion. He said he may have been mistaken when previously telling the commission Perrottet came up with that specific term, but insisted she gave invaluable advice.

“This is the problem when you ask for evidence that’s seven years old, but throughout my private hearings, I have told you Anita was instrumental in telling us to pivot away from promoting the commercial side of the business and how well it was doing, and promoting to the public about the welfare benefits and the efforts going into it,” Greenwood retorted.

Perrottet was paid significant lump sums by Greenwood’s company which she told the ICAC was solely for her professional advice. The ICAC has since heard evidence that those payments were in part for advice her husband Charles Perrottet gave to assist Beckington with work for Jean Nassif.