Robert Assaf tells Icac that Angus Taylor wasn’t ‘that involved’ but the federal opposition leader ‘definitely wasn’t opposed’ to work of conservative group
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 hard-right Liberal factional group the Reformers to give evidence.
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