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Exclusive: Party treasurer Charlie Taylor has attended fundraisers hosted by the minister who appointed him

NSW Labor is going to the state election with an $80 million plan to create a Great Koala National Park, which they say will protect 20 per cent of the state's koala population.

MORNING BRIEFING: Former deputy premier John Barilaro will today appear before the inquiry created to investigate his appointment as NSW's trade commissioner to the Americas.

John Barilaro has revealed the third reference on his job application for a lucrative US trade role came from former NSW premier Barry O'Farrell.

All overseas senior trade roles are set to be investigated by the inquiry looking into the appointment of NSW former deputy premier John Barilaro to the US job, after "very serious" allegations against Premier Dominic Perrottet.

Labor's leader in the NSW Legislative Council wants to expand the scope of the inquiry into the appointment of John Barilaro to a plum US trade job.

Evidence given by a former public servant who said she was offered a job that eventually went to John Barilaro was "not correct", the official says.

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.

A NSW public servant was told she no longer had a trade job in New York that would "be a present for someone", before it was given to John Barilaro.