A member of an interview panel that selected John Barilaro for a lucrative New York trade job has told an inquiry she wouldn’t have signed off on his hiring if she “knew then what I know now” about the involvement of senior government figures in the recruitment process.
The New South Wales public service commissioner, Kathrina Lo, gave evidence that she didn’t know about “the number and nature” of interactions between now resigned minister Stuart Ayres and the head of Investment NSW, Amy Brown, during the recruitment process.
