Barilaro will vigorously defend the two charges,his lawyer Danny Eid said outside Manly Local Court.
Former trade minister Stuart Ayres will be called to an inquiry that is probing the state’s controversial trade commissioners when it resumes next month.
As the Coalition heads towards March,when it will ask voters to re-elect it for a total of 16 years in power,there is a gulf between the government and Labor.
The departure of a top public servant who ran the process that handed Barilaro a $500,000 trade commissioner job has consequences for Ayres too.
Senior NSW bureaucrat Amy Brown was sacked over the New York trade job appointment process,but former trade minister Stuart Ayres is expected to return to the cabinet.
Department boss Amy Brown will receive 38 weeks’ pay after her employment was terminated by the government following her involvement in appointing John Barilaro to a plum post in New York.
The NSW premier is now left with an impossible choice:reinstate Stuart Ayres to cabinet or keep him on the backbench and ignore the finding that his former deputy leader did nothing wrong.
A pre-election cabinet reshuffle is the most realistic avenue for Stuart Ayres to return to the Perrottet ministry after he was cleared of wrongdoing in John Barilaro’s appointment to a US trade post.
Former trade minister Stuart Ayres could return to NSW cabinet after a review probing his involvement in John Barilaro’s appointment to a US trade post cleared him of any wrongdoing.
The former premier is happy in his new role plus,after the Barilaro controversy,the optics wouldn’t be good.
Former premier Gladys Berejiklian has distanced herself from the trade appointment saga embroiling the NSW government,in a written response to questions from the inquiry probing the plum posts.