John Barilaro’s former chief of staff claims the then-deputy New South Wales premier had stated as early as 2019 that he wanted a New York trade job for “when I get the fuck out of this place”.
In a submission to the parliamentary inquiry into Barilaro’s now-abandoned appointment to the plum New York posting last month, Mark Connell recounted a conversation he claims to have had with his then-boss in April 2019.
