Teachers demand more scrutiny of Catholic school funding amid Icac inquiry into ‘sham arrangement’ with Liberal group

Independent Education Union ‘deeply concerned … public funding for Catholic schools may have been wrongfully spent on Liberal party matters’

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The union for independent school teachers in New South Wales has demanded greater scrutiny of Catholic schools as the chief executive of their governing body told a corruption inquiry payments to a lobbying firm were not a “sham arrangement” to fund Liberal party factional work.

Dallas McInerney insisted to the https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/independent-commission-against-corruption">NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) on Friday that Catholic Schools NSW funding wasn’t misused.