● 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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DOSSIER · THE OTHER SIDEARTICLES · 11

World Worriers

STATUS · Profiles

Not a rort — the people on the other side of the ledger. The activists, scientists and disruptors who spent their lives refusing to let it slide.

01 / The evidence chain

·Operation Krill Wars01The pirate02The last tree03The girl who wouldn’t stop04Her Deepness05Seven decades of wonder06The seed keeper07The number that became a movement08Cropped out09The cleanup10The disruptor

03 / The money

January 2019Nakate began striking alone outside Uganda’s parliament. It was months before other protesters joined her.SOURCE · The GuardianCropped outJanuary 2020The Associated Press cropped Nakate from a group photograph at Davos. She was the only Black person in the frame.SOURCE · AP / multiple outletsCropped outTime 100Nakate was named to Time’s 100 most influential people and appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.SOURCE · Time / UNICEFCropped out381 metresdepth of Earle's solo walk on the ocean floor in a JIM suit, a record that still standsSOURCE · Mission Blue / National GeographicHer Deepness150+Hope Spots identified by Mission Blue as critical ocean ecosystems requiring protectionSOURCE · Mission BlueHer Deepness7,000+hours spent underwater across more than 100 expeditions over seven decadesSOURCE · Mission Blue / National GeographicHer Deepness5 hoursduration of the Watson Foundation's intervention against two Aker vessels in Antarctic watersSOURCE · Captain Paul Watson Foundation, 31 March 2026Operation Krill Wars107 daysbetween Watson's release from Greenland prison and the Bandero's collision with the Antarctic SeaSOURCE · AP / Captain Paul Watson FoundationOperation Krill Wars

Nobody wrote this page. It assembled itself from the 11 investigations that make up World Worriers, and it deepens automatically each time The Rort publishes another in the series. The named actors, the sourced figures and the evidence chain stay in lockstep with the archive.

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