{
  "id": 722095,
  "title": "Reformers were ‘spectacularly unsuccessful’ in taking over NSW Liberals, Catholic schools boss says",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/reformers-were-spectacularly-unsuccessful-in-taking-over-nsw-liberals",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T02:08:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian Australia",
    "slug": "the-guardian-australia",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/13/icac-corruption-inquiry-operation-rosny-reformers-nsw-liberals-catholic-schools-ntwnfb"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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.\n\nThe Reformers are a factional group driven by a sense of \"a calling … a duty\", McInerney said. They allegedly solicited illegal political donations.\n\nA 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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        "outlet": "The Guardian",
        "title": "Reformers were ‘spectacularly unsuccessful’ in taking over NSW Liberals, Catholic schools boss says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/reformers-were-spectacularly-unsuccessful-in-taking-over-nsw-liberals-723046",
        "published": "2026-08-13T02:08:57.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}