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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 best mates – Alex Hawke, the faction leader with a talent for numbers like few others in Parliament.

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 and Natalie Ward. Credit:AAP, Supplied Legislative Council member Natalie Ward will replace Mr Sidoti ...

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’s primary vote was just 21.7 per cent. NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay says it would be a “cop out�...