NSW agent general to UK approved ad attacking Labor tax policy before 2019 election

Stephen Cartwright (left) in March 2020 alongside Gladys Berejiklian and Dominic Perrottet. Prior to his appointment as London trade envoy last year, Cartwright headed the NSW Business Chamber. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The man appointed by the New South Wales government to a senior London trade role approved negative television ads that targeted a Labor business tax policy at the last state election in his previous job as head of the NSW Business Chamber.

Separately, a NSW parliamentary inquiry heard testimony this week that the NSW agent general to the UK, Stephen Cartwright, went over the head of his manager, Investment NSW chief Amy Brown, and messaged Liberal trade minister Stuart Ayres directly in a dispute about a cost of living allowance.