A senior public servant who directly reported to John Barilaro was the “final decision-maker” in appointing the former deputy premier to a plum $500,000-a-year trade job in New York, the premier, Dominic Perrottet, has told parliament.
On Wednesday, Perrottet revealed that Amy Brown, the chief executive of Investment NSW, was responsible for hiring Barilaro over the highly-qualified businesswoman Jenny West, who had previously been identified as the preferred candidate for the job.
