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A Herald investigation reveals Tim Stewart’s business dealings include links to a trio of one-time bankrupt Liberal powerbrokers from the Sutherland Shire.

Advertisement Liberals have plenty of theories about who is pulling the strings in a ruthless powerplay that threatens at least two of Scott Morrison’s ministers and might even cost him some federal MPs. Every faction is blaming the other for starting an argument that hurts the Prime Minister’s plan to select the Liberal candidates he needs to win the next election. But when Liberals look up to identify the puppet master with the strings in his hands, many of them see one of Morrison’s be...

Advertisement NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has promoted two MPs to her frontbench, including one woman, filling vacancies created after two of her ministers were forced to quit amid damaging scandals. Ms Berejiklian has had a cabinet vacancy since March, when Drummoyne MP John Sidoti was forced out of the ministry permanently amid a corruption hearing. Mr Sidoti had been sidelined from the frontbench for more than 18 months, longer than he was a minister. New NSW ministers Alister Henskens an...

Two new government ministers have been appointed in NSW to replace MPs sidelined by misconduct allegations.

Save Share Federal Labor MPs have warned the party risks handing Scott Morrison the next election unless it urgently reconnects with blue-collar voters, conceding a weekend byelection in NSW showed the party was out of touch with its base. State Labor leader Jodi McKay was digging in on Sunday after a 7 per cent drop in the party’s primary vote in Saturday’s Upper Hunter byelection, with the Nationals holding the seat and firming up Gladys Berejiklian’s grip on power. Labor’...

Potentially months out from a federal election, Labor MPs say the loss in the weekend’s state byelection should prompt soul-searching inside the party.

Advertisement Gladys Berejiklian is the preferred premier among Labor voters and NSW Labor’s primary vote has slumped to 28 per cent as the Coalition’s handling of the pandemic wins voters. As Labor tries to wrest Upper Hunter from the government in a critical byelection on Saturday, the opposition’s statewide primary vote has slipped five points since the 2019 state election. Labor leader Jodi McKay and Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Credit:Kate Geraghty/Rhett Wyman The latest Res...

Dysfunction is slowly engulfing Gladys Berejiklian’s government We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss May 15, 2021 — 5.30am May 15, 2021 — 5.30am Save Normal text size Advertisement In just 10 weeks, two separate sexual assault allegations, a corruption inquiry and disloyalty have claimed four MPs from the Berejiklian government. So dire is the situation, the Coalition – which 10 years ago celebrated the largest electoral wi...

Share on Twitter The NSW premier says shes concerned and distressed by sexual assault allegations levelled against sidelined frontbencher Gareth Ward, as her government faces the prospect of sinking further into minority. Mr Ward denies any wrongdoing and is yet to be contacted by police over the allegations, which he says he learned about in media reports. The Kiama MP on Thursday night stepped aside as families, communities and disability services minister after identifying himsel...

Ward says he will leave the Liberal party room while police investigate and he denies ‘any wrongdoing’