August 28, 2026 — 4:58pm“It’s the best show in town,” enthused Rose from Potts Point, one of the members of the packed public gallery listening to the torrent of “I don’t recalls” uttered by witness Anita Perrottet, who at one point complained about people laughing.Anita Perrottet gives evidence at the ICAC.ICACQueues had formed to catch the return appearance of Perrottet, who appeared to be suffering from some kind of ICAC-induced amnesia when she gave evidence earlier in the week.No doubt some onlookers were keen to pick up some tips as to how Perrottet managed to earn $660,999 over a two-year period for providing spurious advice – given over the phone or at a kids’ playground – about caring for greyhounds, or the revelation that vaping is bad for children.That was “an enormous amount to be paid” given there was no evidence of any work done, suggested counsel assisting Dr Peggy Dwyer, SC.But the 41-year-old Perrottet wasn’t having a bar of this. “I believe I was paid what I was worth. Jeremy believed I was a huge value-add,” she said.At one point an exasperated Dwyer said, “Oh, Mrs Perrottet, the game is exposed, isn’t it? It is just completely ludicrous to maintain the position that you have, that this was a genuine business.”But it was a genuine business, Perrottet protested.The commission has heard that her “boss”, Jeremy Greenwood, along with his friends Christian Ellis and Anita’s husband Charles, each received $660,999, which was a three-way split of $2 million paid to them by disgraced property developer Jean Nassif.Jean Nassif is a person of interest in this inquiry.InstagramIt has been alleged that Anita helped launder her husband’s share by providing sham invoices from her company Macquarie Consulting to Beckington, the lobbying company of Greenwood and Ellis.Perrottet wasn’t even sure she’d ever heard of Nassif before this inquiry, or that he had any connection to her husband.However, text messages showed that on September 12, 2020, her family had been invited to a Saturday lunch at the waterside home of Nassif and his then wife Nissy. Also in attendance were Greenwood and Ellis and their families. The commission was told Anita was unable to attend due to illness.But none of these things sparked a memory – not even when shown photos her husband sent of their children playing at the Nassifs’ Chiswick home.The Chiswick home of Toplace owner Jean Nassif and his former wife, Nissy.“Does that prompt your memory at all,that you were told at some stage that Charles and the children were at the home of Jean and Nissy Nassif at that day?”“No, I’m sorry,” she replied.The morning opened with Perrottet struggling to recall events from little over a fortnight ago. She was asked when it was she had turned on the “disappearing” message function so all of her encrypted WhatsApp chats with Greenwood would vanish.“Oh, gosh a long time ago,” said Perrottet. But it appeared it was done on August 10, the same day Greenwood gave evidence to the ICAC.Things went from bad to worse for Perrottet. The inquiry heard that the Perrottets had moved to Melbourne in early 2021. She had claimed numerous tax deductions for work-related flights to Sydney, hotel stays and Ubers for meetings she claimed were with Greenwood.Asked by Commissioner Fabian Gleeson why she’d put in a claim for parking at Mosman Council, Perrottet retorted curtly, “Well, why not?” She probably met her business associate Greenwood there, she offered.Dwyer showed Perrottet that she was usually in Melbourne when she put in the claims for Sydney work expenses. It was Charles who was in Sydney. Dwyer informed her that the ICAC had evidence that her husband, who worked full-time for global oil and gas company BP, was in Sydney meeting with Nassif.Towards the end of her time in the witness box, Dwyer warned her that it was an offence [up to five years’ imprisonment] to give false evidence to the commission. Not even that seemed to bolster her memory.“If I am being honest, it’s all very much a blur,” Perrottet said half-heartedly.From our partners