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Marise Payne and Stuart Ayres, pictured in 2015, shared a love of horses.

Political split: Marise Payne and Stuart Ayres go their separate ways

Bedrock political couple call time after more than 15 years.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman

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A political wrecking ball could destroy urgent housing before it’s even built

The Liberals have devised a bill to undo NSW Labor’s push to build more apartments around 37 train stations, but a mix of NIMBY and YIMBY MPs makes things awkward.

  • Alexandra Smith
Liberal MP Stuart Ayres holds Penrith on a 0.6 per cent margin.

Emotional Ayres summons Penrith parochialism on final day of campaign

Liberal MP Stuart Ayres is hoping that his commitment to a new stadium for the Panthers will get him over the line on Saturday.

  • Harriet Alexander
The promise of infrastructure is drawing people to Penrith more quickly than housing can be built to accommodate them.

People are flocking to this electorate on the promise of big builds. Now they’re waiting

The story of Penrith, an electorate on a knife’s edge in the state election, is more complicated than infrastructure failing to meet population growth.

  • Harriet Alexander
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said he will welcome any help from his predecessor on the campaign trail.

Guess who’s coming to dinner: Berejiklian makes first campaign appearance

A beaming Gladys Berejiklian has appeared for the first time on the election campaign trail in one of the Liberal Party’s most at-risk seats.

  • Lucy Cormack
Stuart Ayres, John Barilaro and Jenny West.

Barilaro, Ayres hit with lawsuit over New York trade commissioner job

Jennifer West alleges she was removed from the $500,000-a-year post to avoid embarrassment to government ministers John Barilaro and Stuart Ayres.

  • Jordan Baker
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John Barilaro at last year’s parliamentary inquiry examining his recruitment as US trade commissioner.

ICAC finds ‘no corrupt conduct’ in Barilaro trade appointment

A seven-month investigation by ICAC into John Barilaro’s US trade role appointment has been closed following compulsory secret interviews and examination of documents.

  • Lucy Cormack
Penrith high street.

The ‘microcosm of NSW’ that holds clues to success - or defeat - at the election

After the ballots are cast and counted and the major parties unpick the reasons for their victory or defeat, they are likely to find clues in this electorate.

  • Harriet Alexander
Stuart Ayres resigned as trade minister over his role in the recruitment process.

Ayres under fire in scathing report into Barilaro trade job scandal

The former Liberal minister who lost his cabinet position amid the John Barilaro scandal is a key target of the report, which described the process as a ‘jobs for the boys’ appointment.

  • Lucy Cormack
NSW Trade Minister Stuart Ayres has conceded he should have counselled John Barilaro against applying for a trade role.

Stuart Ayres will return to cabinet if Coalition wins election

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet will return Stuart Ayres to his frontbench if the Coalition claims victory in the state election, almost six months after he resigned over his role in the John Barilaro trade appointment scandal.

  • Lucy Cormack

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