What this station is, how it works and the line it will not cross.
The Rort is an independent Australian watch station. We track what gets taken from the public: money, safety, privacy, rights, the right to know. Who took it, by which device, and where it landed. The work covers politics, corporate Australia, natural resources, housing, media ownership and health.
We feature, embed and link to independent journalists, researchers and activists who hold power to account. We publish original investigations, analysis and context. We do not re-host or reproduce the work of others.
There is no advertising here. There are no sponsors, no partners and no commercial relationships. The rort is the target, not a party.
Most publications pile up articles until the archive becomes a haystack. This station runs the other way: every investigation is evidence, and the evidence feeds a persistent model of how power works in Australia. Name an entity in a piece and its dossier grows. Close a chain of evidence and a case file sharpens. The Watchfloor, the Docket and every dossier are read straight from that model on every build.
Nothing on this site is decorative. Counters accrue at documented rates from sourced figures. The Drain sizes every conduit by the real money it moves. If a number is on the screen, there is a source under it.