In 2004, Moyes started questioning CDP leader Fred Nile's leadership after Nile's return to state politics following his unsuccessful attempt to win a seat at the 2004 federal election.
In December 2007, Moyes claimed that Nile was going against his own party executive to oppose Islamic schools,[REF] claiming it was policy "made on the run" by Nile and was "certainly not democratic in its methodology or Christian in its theological application".