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The NSW Public Service boss has accused a high profile agency of withholding information when it appointed John Barilaro to a US trade post and said she would never have signed off on the pick if she had been fully informed.
The senior public servant who hired John Barilaro for the New York trade job has detailed how two other women were knocked out of the running while she kept an eye on keeping her minister 'comfortable'.
John Barilaro's former chief of staff has said the former deputy premier claimed he would take a job in New York after getting 'the f*** out of' Sydney, in an open letter released by parliament.
A government lawyer has hit back at suggestions top public servant Jenny West was offered a plum trade job at the parliamentary inquiry into John Barilaro's appointment to the New York role.