The woman first offered the New York trade commissioner job that eventually went to former New South Wales deputy premier John Barilaro has told a parliamentary probe into the appointment that she was told the position would instead be “a present for someone”.
On Monday the former senior public servant and businesswoman Jenny West told an upper house inquiry into Barilaro’s appointment she received a brief signed by former premier Gladys Berejiklian noting her appointment to the $500,000-a-year posting on 12 August last year.
