More than $500k in jobkeeper given to Margaret Court’s Pentecostal church

Federal government payments to Victory Life Centre included $280k in financial year when revenue barely decreased

The Pentecostal church run by controversial former tennis champion Margaret Court, Victory Life Centre, received more than $280,000 in jobkeeper in the three months to the end of June last year, even though its revenue ultimately barely decreased.

Payments under the scheme began a fortnight after the church’s declaration in mid-March last year that the blood of Jesus would protect parishioners from the deadly virus, but it would nevertheless provide sanitiser.

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