Former rugby league player and philanthropist Terry Campese announced today that he will step down as Labor candidate for Monaro in the NSW state election next month.
Former NSW deputy premier and Member for Monaro John Barilaro's appointment to a lucrative US trade job was a "sorry saga" with all the hallmarks of a "job for the boys", a parliamentary inquiry has found.
After months of examination and a dozen public hearings, a report is due to be handed down analysing how former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro landed a high paying overseas trade role.
The NSW opposition has threatened to refer a controversial government move to effectively exclude Labor electorates from urgent bushfire recovery funding to the state's corruption watchdog.
Former NSW Treasury secretary Michael Pratt says ex-deputy premier John Barilaro acted inappropriately during salary negotiations for the London agent-general.
The senior NSW bureaucrat at the centre of the political scandal involving John Barilaro's appointment to a highly-paid overseas job has been dismissed.
Former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro has been charged with assault and malicious damage offences after a scuffle with a cameraman earlier this year.
NSW's treasurer has been grilled over correspondence with John Barilaro about a US trade job which the ex-Nationals leader was later controversially given.
The NSW Labor opposition will seek to expand an inquiry into former deputy premier John Barilaro's appointment to a US trade job to look at other lucrative overseas-based roles.
