Stuart Ayres
Political split: Marise Payne and Stuart Ayres go their separate ways
Bedrock political couple call time after more than 15 years.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Opinion
Property development
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.
- by Alexandra Smith
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.
- by Harriet Alexander
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.
- by Harriet Alexander
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.
- by Lucy Cormack
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Courts
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.
- by Jordan Baker
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.
- by Lucy Cormack
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.
- by Harriet Alexander
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.
- by Lucy Cormack
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.
- by Lucy Cormack
Ayres approved paying agent-general’s school fees and rent in London, emails claim
NSW agent-general Stephen Cartwright appeared before an upper house probe for the second time on Tuesday, alongside Premier Dominic Perrottet’s chief-of-staff Bran Black.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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