Early Life
Perton was raised in Melbourne and is the son of refugees from Latvia and Lithuania, part of the large Baltic migration to Australia from refugee camps in western Europe after the Second World War. Perton attended Catholic schools, later studying economics and law at Monash University, Melbourne University and Peking University.
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