Candidate for John Barilaro’s NY role had offer retracted after ‘government decision’, inquiry told

Head of Investment NSW, Amy Brown, told to unwind' process after an instruction from the office of the then deputy premier John Barilaro

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Businesswoman Jenny West was given a verbal offer" for a New York-based trade commissioner job, but the head of Investment New South Wales, Amy Brown, was told to unwind" the process after an instruction from the office of the then deputy premier John Barilaro.

In an explosive hearing of an upper house inquiry investigating how Barilaro was eventually offered the $500,000-a-year role, Brown, a senior public servant responsible for filling the role, revealed West was told she had got the job in August last year.