Former health minister Greg Hunt joined an Exclusive Brethren-linked health equipment company as a board adviser months after retiring at the 2022 federal election, a position he still holds as the closeness of the Liberal Party’s relationship with the church is under fresh scrutiny.

Companies owned by the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church’s “Royal Family” – the sons of world leader Bruce Hales – and other Brethren churchgoers won contracts to supply COVID-19 tests, rapid antigen tests and personal protective equipment worth about $5.1 billion in Australia, the UK, United States, the Netherlands and Canada.

The church has become controversial because its financial and on-the-ground support for the Liberal Party at the last election was so overwhelming that some Liberal operatives fear

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