ICAC considers probe into John Barilaro’s US trade post

The NSW corruption watchdog is considering whether to investigate the circumstances in which former deputy premier John Barilaro was appointed to a lucrative US trade post, after an inquiry heard explosive claims a top bureaucrat said the role was “a present for someone”.

The former bureaucrat was represented at the inquiry pro bono by Sydney barrister Geoffrey Watson, SC, who was counsel assisting several landmark Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiries, and law firm Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers. Watson declined to comment on the hearing on Monday. But West said on Monday that she regarded the August discussions as a formal offer. She said Brown “approved my request regarding my contract terms” on August 14.

“Ms Brown then also told me at that meeting that the funding for my current position, the deputy secretary position within Investment NSW, had been reallocated, and I may not have that position either. That news shocked me,” she said. Brown has previously told the inquiry that she was directed to rescind West’s verbal job offer last year after the change in government policy. Brown said an adviser in the office of Barilaro, then deputy premier and trade minister, had asked her on or about September 6 about the mechanisms by which global trade commissioners could be appointed.

West is the second witness to give evidence to the upper house inquiry examining Barilaro’s controversialPremier Dominic Perrottet told parliament in June that Barilaro was appointed after “the first recruitment process did not identify a suitable candidate”.

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