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Penry Buckley and Anne Davies

Reformers associate may have ‘boasted’ or ‘lied’ about a $15,000 commitment from Angus Taylor, Icac hears

Dallas McInerney Reformers Catholic Schools NSW Christian Ellis ICAC Jeremy Greenwood Angus Taylor New South Wales JeanClaude Perrottet Jim Molan
Catholic Schools NSW CEO Dallas McInerney pictured at a press conference in 2022
Catholic Schools NSW CEO Dallas McInerney pictured in 2022. He appeared at an Icac hearing in Sydney on Thursday. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

A factional ally of Angus Taylor has denied ever asking the federal opposition leader for money for a group of Liberal party Christian power brokers who allegedly solicited illegal donations, suggesting a Reformers associate may have “lied” about a $15,000 commitment.

The Catholic Schools NSW chief executive, Dallas McInerney, gave evidence at the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) on Thursday. Icac is investigating whether McInerney arranged and approved donations from the governing body for 600 Catholic schools to support alleged branch stacking efforts of the conservative Christian group the Reformers.

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