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The New Daily
James Robertson

Second Exclusive Brethren company scoops $100 million in COVID contracts

The contract included the supply of rapid antigen tests. Photo: Getty

A second company linked to a fundamentalist Christian sect known as the Exclusive Brethren won more than $100 million in federal government contracts to supply Covid tests, The New Daily can reveal.

Dubbed an “extremist cult” by former PM Kevin Rudd, the group has condemned homosexuality, requires women congregants to wear head coverings and has been accused in courts of forbidding contact with family members who choose to leave.

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