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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Penry Buckley and Jack Larkin

‘Warring kingdoms’: cofounder of religious Reformers compares NSW Liberal party factionalism to Braveheart

Witness Robert Assaf arriving at the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) on Thursday.
Witness Robert Assaf arriving at the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) on Thursday. Photograph: Damian Shaw/AAP

A member of a group of young conservative Liberal power brokers being investigated for allegedly soliciting illegal donations has compared their factional work to Mel Gibson’s Braveheart – and said they “didn’t think the law applied to us” when it came to political funding.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) on Thursday heard from Robert Assaf, the first witness from the conservative right Liberal factional group the Reformers to give evidence.

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