Joel Jammal’s first foray into political battle was during his university days, when the self-described Christian conservative rallied against a policy to withhold his final results until he completed mandatory sexual consent training.

The then-21-year-old stared down the University of Technology Sydney and won, graduating with a degree in property economics without touching the training. His next target? A political party.

Jammal and his young mate, 18-year-old Samraat Grewal, were so incensed with alleged nepotism and mismanagement within the Christian Democrats, led by the long-serving NSW MP Fred Nile, that the pair orchestrated a revolt to take over their fractured party.

Their audacious bid was not successful but the party ultimately folded and Nile retired from parliament, after

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