Inquiry into Barilaro trade role sends transcript to ICAC | AlexSmithSMH LucyCormack
The NSW upper house has sent a transcript of its inquiry into how former deputy premier John Barilaro secured a plum $500,000-a-year trade role to the corruption watchdog.the circumstances in which Barilaro was appointed to the lucrative US post after he quit politics.Chair of the inquiry, Greens MP Cate Faehrmann, said the transcript of evidence from the former senior public servant Jenny West on Monday would also be sent to the ICAC for its consideration.
Barilaro was selected as the new trade commissioner to the Americas six months later after a second recruitment search was started. He insists due process was followed. In her first public comments about the saga, West outlined to the inquiry the extensive interview process she undertook to secure the trade post.
One contemporaneous note, dated September 17, recounted Brown explaining that West’s contract could not progress “despite me being verbally offered the state trade investment commissioner [STIC] Americas role [and] the premier signing off the job/brief”.
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