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

The Catholic Schools NSW chief executive, Dallas McInerney, has told the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption that a group of Christian Liberal power brokers, known as the Reformers, were "spectacularly unsuccessful" in their bid to take over the NSW Liberals. According to McInerney, the Reformers' model was never correct.

The Reformers are a factional group driven by a sense of "a calling … a duty", McInerney said. They allegedly solicited illegal political donations.

A lobbyist, Jeremy Greenwood, also gave evidence to the inquiry, which heard that members of the Reformers received a "kickback" from consultancy payments made by the governing body for more than 600 schools in New South Wales.

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