Amy Brown appointed Mr Barilaro to the $500,000-a-year trade post, even though there were many other well-credentialed candidates in the running. She was later sacked with for poor performance.
Amy Brown, the senior NSW bureaucrat who appointed former deputy state premier John Barilaro to a plum $500,000 trade job in New York said she is exploring new opportunities .
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The fall-out from the former deputy Premier John Barilaro’s attempt to snare the plumb New York trade commissioner job continues with damning new revelations almost every week. Jim McIlroy reports.
Explosive text messages reveal the reactions of public servants to John Barilaro s appointment to a plum US trade role as news filtered through to the government.