The Latest Breaking News from John Barilaro

The Grattan Institute has spelt out in methodical detail just how thorough the Morrison government — and Victoria — was at stacking boards.

The NSW premier says he's not aware of a note signed by Gladys Berejiklian telling a public servant she had landed a desirable trade role.

Does Barilaro’s appointment into a plum NY job at the expense of Jenny West constitute corruption? Time will tell. But its indecency is stark.

Findings from an inquiry into John Barilaro's appointment to a lucrative overseas trade role are a "huge scandal", NSW Labor says.

NSW premier says there’s ‘no place for gifts of government jobs’ after claim New York trade role would be ‘a present for someone’

Evidence from the parliamentary inquiry into the process that saw former deputy premier John Barilaro given a plum trade job will be referred to NSW's Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Two staffers of former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro have been asked to give evidence at an inquiry into how he was appointed to a trade role in the US.

ICAC is reportedly considering investigating former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro’s appointment to a plum NY job paying half a million dollars, and Victoria’s public hospitals are preparing to suspend some elective surgery to handle spiking COVID hospitalisations. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

MORNING BRIEFING: The state opposition says there is "something rotten" in the New South Wales government after explosive evidence was given at an inquiry yesterday detailing how John Barilaro was given a plum US Trade Commissioner role after a highly qualified woman had already been offered the role.

This inquiry seems certain to have worse in store for Mr Perrottet, and until he clears up his own role in the saga he will be hostage to its findings.

Executive Jenny West was congratulated on the promotion of a lifetime, only to see the job as career ruin after it became a “present” for someone else.