Files released by parliament show Barilaro was also sent brief saying Jenny West selected following ‘full recruitment process’
Dominic Perrottet
Contained in a tranche of documents released to the parliament on Tuesday, the brief is identical to a brief sent to then premier Gladys BerejiklianThe new documents were released after the Labor opposition successfully pushed to have the parliament recalled from its winter break on Friday to secure the release of hundreds of pages of files relating to former deputy premier John Barilaro’s eventual appointment to the $500,000-a-year trade position.
in August 2021. The parliamentary inquiry has been told the first round of recruitment was discontinued after a cabinet decision to make the position a ministerial appointment. However, that decision was later reversed and it returned to being a public service appointment, with the position being readvertised in December after Barilaro left politics, and his appointment announced in June.
“When pressed in the inquiry, the secretary of the department confirmed that was the advice that had been provided to me in relation to whether or not there had been a suitable candidate from the first process,” Perrottet said earlier this month.
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