Dominic Perrottet’s chief of staff Bran Black has been drawn into the ongoing saga over the appointment of overseas trade commissioners, disputing the evidence of a public servant that he expressed a “strong opinion” that an $800,000 salary package for a London role was “worth it”.
An explosive day in New South Wales politics began with John Barilaro telling a parliamentary inquiry that he informed Perrottet of his desire to apply for a lucrative New York trade job, and ended with Amy Brown, the head of Investment NSW, offering series of revelations about the equivalent London role.
