NSW’s top public servant considering sacking department head over John Barilaro’s NY trade appointment

Michael Coutts-Trotter tells parliament his preliminary view' is that Amy Brown hadn't satisfactorily performed' during hiring process, based on report findings

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The most senior New South Wales public servant has revealed he is considering firing the person responsible for appointing the former deputy premier, John Barilaro, to a lucrative New York trade job.

This came as the state premier, Dominic Perrottet, refused to rule out allowing his party's former deputy Stuart Ayres to return to cabinet, just a month after Ayres resigned over the trade commissioner scandal that engulfed the government.

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