The Agent-General in London Stephen Cartwright was a late entrant to the recruitment process for the state’s most lucrative trade role and his candidate brief had to be “massaged” for him to be appointed.
An email from NGS Global, the firm hired to recruit the trade commissioners, to an Investment NSW human resources executive revealed there were discrepancies in Cartwright’s candidate report. “I understand that out of these three approvers, at least one of them may not require a meeting as Stephen is known to them,” Polura’s email said. At the time Dominic Perrottet was treasurer, Barilaro deputy premier and Gladys Berejiklian was the premier.
Department secretary Amy Brown at the parliamentary inquiry this month. Inset: Then head of Business NSW, Stephen Cartwright, pictured in 2015.The confirmation that there was a preferred candidate for the agent-general role ahead of Cartwright comes after it also emerged in the Barilaro fiasco that former bureaucrat Jenny West was verbally offered the New York trade role only for it to be rescinded.
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