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.
The NSW Public Service boss has accused a high profile agency of withholding information when it appointed John Barilaro to a US trade post and said she would never have signed off on the pick if she had been fully informed.
A senior bureaucrat was sent the selection panel report for Jenny West to share with Stuart Ayres just before he sent John Barilaro the job advertisement.