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

Marise Payne and Stuart Ayres go their separate ways

The bedrock political couple are calling time after more than 15 years.

  • Stephen Brook andKishor Napier-Raman

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

Stuart Ayres’ troubled adventures in Lobby Land

The former Liberal deputy leader is having a tricky time running a property developer lobby group.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook

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
Hancock Prospecting chairwoman Gina Rinehart.

Gina Rinehart enters her fashion era

Australia’s richest person is giving the Brisbane Fashion Festival a dose of her famous generosity.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman
Commissioner Karen Webb speaks to the media outside Sydney Police Centre,Surry Hills following the Wakeley stabbing.

NSW Police seek a new spin doctor after months of chaos

After their last appointment drew controversy,the police are after a new media head to give Karen Webb some tabloid sparkle.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman andNoel Towell
Dr Kerryn Phelps is vying to become lord mayor of the City of Sydney.

Kerryn Phelps’ strange wake-up call to her fellow Australians

The former Wentworth MP appeared to claim that Australian democracy was under threat from sharia in a deleted post on X.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook
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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