Public servant who reported to John Barilaro was on interview panel for lucrative New York trade job

Exclusive: Investment NSW chief executive did not have conflict of interest', agency says after former deputy premier's appointment to $500,000-a-year role

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A senior public servant who reported directly to John Barilaro before his resignation from parliament was on the interview panel who gave the former deputy New South Wales premier a $500,000-a-year trade commissioner job, but the agency involved says there was no conflict of interest.

Amy Brown, the chief executive of Investment NSW, was one of four bureaucrats who interviewed Barilaro for the New York-based trade commissioner job.

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