NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet, Trade Minister Stuart Ayres and then-deputy premier John Barilaro were briefed on the outcome of a global search to fill a senior US trade role and told a senior bureaucrat had got the job, before Mr Barilaro went on to get the role himself.
Mr Ayres also signed off on Jenny West’s appointment to the trade role last year, according to a new trove of papers on the US post released by NSW Treasury overnight, raising questions about if he misled parliament when he said the process did not find a suitable candidate.
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Samantha Hutchinson is the AFR's National Reporter. Most recently, she was CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Before that, she covered Victorian and NSW politics and business for The Australian, the AFR and BRW Magazine. Connect with Samantha on Twitter. Email Samantha at samantha.hutchinson@afr.com.au
