Documents obtained through parliamentary order show NSW deputy Liberal leader helped produce shortlist of candidates
leader Stuart Ayres asked Investment NSW chief executive Amy Brown to add a name to the shortlist of candidates for a lucrative New York trade commissioner job that ultimately went to John Barilaro.
“Min Ayres and I have run through the ‘long’ shortlist and our recommended ‘short’ shortlist for NYC,” she wrote.The explosive email calls into question comments made by Ayres during his first press conference in almost a month on Thursday. Speaking in Mumbai alongside the premier,, where the two are on a trade mission, Ayres again denied playing any role in the recruitment process.
A briefing prepared for Brown by the department in June states that Barilaro had “met with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Investment, Stuart Ayres MP, who has supported his appointment”.
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