Fallout of Barilaro appointment will be watched very carefully federally

By Jack Waterford
Updated July 1 2022 - 10:55am, first published June 26 2022 - 8:54pm
John Barilaro. Picture: Getty Images
John Barilaro. Picture: Getty Images

Spare a thought for Michael Coutts-Trotter, the Secretary of the NSW Premiers Department. He has been asked, in effect, to decide which of several versions of how John Barilaro was appointed "on merit" to a cushy $500,000 trade commissioner job in New York most closely approximates the truth.

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