Reformers were ‘spectacularly unsuccessful’ in taking over NSW Liberals, Catholic schools boss says

Catholic Schools NSW chief executive Dallas McInerney tells Icac corruption inquiry that Christain factional group driven by ‘a calling … a duty’

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A factional ally of the federal opposition leader, Angus Taylor, has told a corruption inquiry that a group of Christian Liberal power brokers who allegedly solicited illegal political donations were “spectacularly unsuccessful in their ambitions”.

The Catholic Schools NSW chief executive, Dallas McInerney, told the Independent Commission Against Corruption on Thursday that the Reformers’ model was never correct.