● THE INFLATION RORT: Four rises in 2026   ♦ GAS REVENUE FOREGONE: A$537 A SECOND SINCE 1 JULY 2022   ♦ THE INFLATION RORT: Above the 0.25   ♦ THE REPORTING RORT: The fifth system   ♦ THE AIRLINE RORT: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 8 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ THE CARTEL SWITCH: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 1 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ THE COMPLIANCE MACHINE: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 1 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ 105 ENTITIES TRACKED · 101 INVESTIGATIONS · 0 STRUCTURAL BREAK-UPS   ♦ THE SURCHARGE RORT: The cost the Tax Office won’t wear   ♦ THE SURCHARGE RORT: A line off the receipt

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THE DOCKET101 INVESTIGATIONS105 ENTITIES20 CASES

The Docket

Every open case and every recurring name, measured straight from the archive itself. The regulator, the mechanism and the revolving-door minister who surface across all of it rise to the top on their own.

FIG /Citation reach · the 12 names by appearances
051015202530The ACCC30Anthony Albanese22The RBA22The PRRT20Woodside17Santos15The Revolving Door13Jim Chalmers12Chevron11Shell10Qantas10Coles10
Appearances across the 101 investigations
THE ACCC LEADS THE MODEL · 30 CITATIONS, THE MOST OF ANY NAME

Fig. 01 / Structural change · the standing zero

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Break-ups, divestments or structural remedies produced by any case the desk tracks, as set by hand on the date stamped here. Every case below is still running.

Fig. 01Source: the desk's standing claim · break-ups, divestments or structural remedies, set by handAs of 2026‑08‑15Hand-curated

Fig. 02 / Every open case, in the archive's own order

Numbers are each case's row on the front-page register. 5 local cases are on THE PATCH.

Filter by what each case is filed under
Case 01CORPORATEThe Airline Rort~5,000 membersThe Qantas Chairman's Lounge includes approximately 90 per cent of federal parliamentarians. Membership is free, by personal invitation of…Named: The ACCC · Qantas · Barnaby Joyce24 exhibits in 8 articlesCase 02CORPORATEThe Cartel Switch13 daysIntroduction to assent is 13 days.Named: The ACCC · Sunset Clauses · The exceptional circumstances declaration6 exhibits in 1 articleCase 03POLITICSThe Compliance MachineSection 6A"Under s 6A of the SSA Act, DEWR's secretary may arrange for the use of computer programs to make decisions under the social security law…"Named: DEWR · Commonwealth Ombudsman · Services Australia7 exhibits in 1 articleCase 04GOVERNMENTThe Consultancy RortA$968.6mTotal federal consultancy contracts in 2024-25, up about 48 per cent on the prior year's A$653m and above the final Morrison year of…Named: The Revolving Door · Regulatory Capture · The Big Four6 exhibits in 1 articleCase 05POLITICSThe Gambling Rort$0Dollar figures in the explanatory memorandum for the levy that funds the register: none. The amount is left to a later ACMA legislative…Named: Anthony Albanese · Regulatory Capture · The ACMA6 exhibits in 1 articleCase 06RESOURCESAustralia's Gas HeistA$66 billionApproximate value of Australian LNG exports in the financial year just ended.Named: The PRRT · Santos · Woodside65 exhibits in 15 articlesCase 07CORPORATEThe Inflation Rort0.25NAB’s variable home loan rise from 9 October 2026, the same as the Reserve Bank’s rise in the cash rate. Neither NAB’s release nor its…Named: The RBA · The ACCC · Coles18 exhibits in 20 articlesCase 08MEDIAMedia OwnershipA$13.27Min costs ordered against ACE alone. Stokes used his private company to bankroll a defamation case against a commercial rival, with his…Named: News Corp · Nine · Seven West Media9 exhibits in 7 articlesCase 09ENVIRONMENTThe Nature Rort2 projects · 0 certificatesThe Nature Repair Market has two registered projects, both in NSW under the Replanting Method, and has issued no biodiversity certificates.Named: Anthony Albanese · The Nature Repair Market · The Revolving Door9 exhibits in 2 articlesCase 10POLITICSThe Pork BarrelA$5The cost of two years’ social membership at Marrickville Golf Club, as Albanese stated it in the House. His own membership was an honorary…Named: Anthony Albanese · Marrickville Golf Club · MLCI3 exhibits in 1 articleCase 11JUSTICEThe Prison Contract Rort$500,000The charge to the operator for an unnatural death in custody, as the 2022 report states it. That report records that "While cause of death…Named: MTC Australia · Corrective Services NSW · The Inspector of Custodial Services6 exhibits in 1 articleCase 12CORPORATEThe Privacy Rort58 and 57 monthsHow long the Optus White Pages investigation and the Meta case each ran, on this article’s basis, before either produced an outcome.Named: Meta · The OAIC · Optus9 exhibits in 2 articlesCase 14CORPORATEThe Reporting Rort6 duties, 1 empty rowThe ledger this article builds runs from a Centrelink recipient's fourteen days to an AI company's nothing. Every figure in it carries its…Named: Services Australia · OpenAI · The ASD17 exhibits in 4 articlesCase 15CORPORATEThe Roads Rort10–20 cents/litrethe difference between the cycle peak and the cycle trough in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, documented in ACCC quarterly…Named: Transurban · Sydney Airport · The ACCC11 exhibits in 8 articlesCase 17POLITICSThe SmearEightThe number of times the cartoon calls Andrew Hastie a “traitor”. It also calls him a “gutless maggot”.Named: Andrew Hastie · Ben Roberts-Smith · One Nation2 exhibits in 4 articlesCase 18JUSTICEThe Suppression Rort3 August 2026The Monday on which Carr's legal team abandoned the application to extend his suppression order, without explanation. Judge Gucciardo then…Named: Suppression Orders · Victoria Police9 exhibits in 2 articlesCase 19POLITICSThe Surcharge Rort$1.6 billionCard surcharges the RBA estimates consumers paid in 2024/25 on the eftpos, Mastercard and Visa networks, out of about $1.8 billion in all…Named: The ACCC · The RBA · Jim Chalmers7 exhibits in 2 articlesCase 20JUSTICEThe Surveillance Rort27 June 2026The date from which age assurance for logged-in Google and Bing users has been in force in Australia, under the search-engine industry code…Named: NSW Police · Metadata Retention · The eSafety Commissioner12 exhibits in 3 articlesCase 22CORPORATEThe Triple Zero Rort605 numbers, 150 throughBy Optus's own count: 605 service numbers tried to reach Triple Zero during the outage; 150 got through; the other 455 did not.Named: The ACMA · Optus · Coles7 exhibits in 2 articlesCase 23POLITICSThe War TradeNo majorityThe Senate Select Committee into the taxation of Australia's gas resources tabled its report on 7 May 2026 without a majority position on…Named: Donald Trump · Hancock Prospecting · CFTC11 exhibits in 5 articles
Fig. 02Source: case files · lead exhibit and exhibit count per case · unrankedAs of 2026‑10‑04Auto-assembled

Fig. 03 / Names on file · sortable by reach or topics

Fig. 03Source: entity index · appearance counts read from the archiveAs of 2026‑10‑04Auto-assembled
Exhibits on this page3 figures
  1. Fig. 01Structural change · the standing zerothe desk's standing claim · break-ups, divestments or structural remedies, set by hand
  2. Fig. 02Every open case, in the archive's own ordercase files · lead exhibit and exhibit count per case · unranked
  3. Fig. 03Names on file · sortable by reach or topicsentity index · appearance counts read from the archive

An exhibit is anything this page asks you to believe — a chart, a map, a chain of decisions, a register of names. Each is citable by its number and the surface it sits on. Not every rort is denominated in dollars.

Nobody wrote this page. The docket is the whole model of power in one view, measured straight from the archive; it re-sorts and deepens automatically every time The Rort publishes another investigation. The more the archive grows, the harder the pattern is to miss.

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