● Watson Foundation rams Norwegian krill trawler in Antarctic waters   ♦ Murdoch empire holds 70% of print circulation   ♦ Australia gave away $300B in gas — Norway built a sovereign wealth fund   ♦ Kerry Stokes: mining magnate, media owner, political donor   ♦ Negative gearing costs taxpayers $6B per year   ♦ How they killed the mining tax   ♦ The revolving door between politics and media

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The Drain

Australia, being siphoned. Every conduit is a rort pulling public wealth offshore — sized and paced by the real money it takes. The reserve empties; the tax that returns is a trickle.

52
Investigations
24
Entities tracked
0
Structural break-ups
Gas revenue foregone · since 2022/07/01
A$68,017,708,800
▲ ~A$537/sec · Punter's Politics / Rort tracking, since 1 Jul 2022
Public reserve · depleting
Returned as resource tax: ~A$1.5bn PRRT (2025–26 forecast) on ~A$66bn of LNG exports

02 / Active cases

CASE FILE · CORPORATEOngoing · unresolved
The Airline Rort
A duopoly for most of 35 years. Eight challengers tried to break it; every one failed or was absorbed. Fares stay above pre-COVID levels while the regulator …
8 investigationsThe ACCC · Qantas · Duopoly & Concentration
CASE FILE · RESOURCESOngoing · unresolved
Australia's Gas Heist
One of the largest LNG exporters on earth, and Australians pay more for their own gas than the countries it's shipped to. The public tax take is measured in …
11 investigationsThe PRRT · Woodside · INPEX
CASE FILE · CORPORATEOngoing · unresolved
The Inflation Rort
Rate rises did the work while margins widened. The regulator found the supermarket sector 'not working well' — and recommended no structural remedy. Share pr…
8 investigationsThe RBA · The ACCC · Coles
CASE FILE · MEDIAOngoing · unresolved
Media Ownership
Three billionaires and a US conglomerate control almost everything Australians read, watch and hear. The people who wrote the media laws went to work for the…
6 investigationsNews Corp · Nine · Seven West Media
CASE FILE · CORPORATEOngoing · unresolved
The Roads Rort
One company started with a single toll road in 1996 and now holds full or partial ownership of every major toll road in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane — a le…
8 investigationsTransurban · Sydney Airport · The ACCC

03 / Priority target & the wire

Priority target

The ACCC

Cited in 19 investigations across 4 topics — the most-tracked node on the board. Open the dossier that assembled itself.

OPEN DOSSIER →
◆GAS LOBBY SPENDS BIG TO SILENCE INDEPENDENT VOICES
◆$480K IN DEFENCE LATE PAYMENT FEES REVEALED
◆MURDOCH EMPIRE HOLDS 70% OF PRINT CIRCULATION
◆NEGATIVE GEARING COSTS TAXPAYERS $6B PER YEAR
◆PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE PROFIT UP 23%
◆GAMBLING ADVERTISING BAN LONG OVERDUE — SENATOR POCOCK

How to read this. Follow the power, not the categories: land on a dollar, jump to the company bleeding it, see which regulator waved it through and which article documented each hop. Every figure here traces to a source in the journalism.

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