(ABC-Australia) Council workers visiting a rural property in Sydney’s north-west used by a religious group were told police needed the riot squad and a Polair helicopter when accompanying them due to safety concerns, a court has heard.
Hawkesbury City Council has launched civil action against Dr Mustapha Kara-Ali and Diaa Kara-Ali in the Land and Environment Court, alleging the men carried out illegal land clearing, earthworks and built gates, fences and driveways without seeking any of the relevant development approvals at a property in Colo, in Sydney’s north west.
Mustapha Kara-Ali, a former member of then-Prime Minister John Howard’s Muslim Community Reference Group and past postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, is the imam of religious guild Diwan Al Dawla, which he founded.
