● 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 ACCC

Where The ACCC sits in the flow of extraction.

Gas revenue foregone · since 2022/07/01
A$68,017,708,800
▲ ~A$537/sec · Punter's Politics / Rort tracking, since 1 Jul 2022
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THE RORT · LIVING MODEL OF POWER · ENTITY DOSSIERDOSSIER OPEN — TRACKING
ENTITY / ACTORFEDERAL REGULATORFIRST TRACKED · 2017APPEARS IN · 4 INVESTIGATIONS

The ACCC

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission

STATUS · Captured in effect

The body meant to keep markets honest. It sits at the centre of every rort — running inquiries, publishing findings — and has never once ordered a structural break-up of the concentration it keeps describing.

Gas revenue foregone — a rort it declined to break up
A$68,017,708,800
Accruing at a documented average — Punter's Politics / Rort tracking, since 1 Jul 2022.
19
Investigations citing it
4
Topics it recurs across
19
Linked in the graph
3
Figures on file

01 / Appears across the model

The Airline Rort88 investigations →The Inflation Rort67%of supermarket grocery sales controlled by Woolworths and Coles — in a sector the ACCC describes as ‘oligopolistic’ with ‘limited incentive to comp…6 investigations →The Roads Rort10–20 cents/litrethe difference between the cycle peak and the cycle trough in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide — documented in ACCC quarterly reports for o…3 investigations →Australia's Gas Heist3 companiesACCC June 2025: risk of east coast domestic gas shortfall in 2026 depends entirely on whether Queensland LNG producers export all their uncontracte…2 investigations →

03 / The evidence chain

The Airline Rort
01The fareTHE AIRLINE RORT02The duopolyTHE AIRLINE RORT03The Qatar blockTHE AIRLINE RORT04Who owns the airportsTHE AIRLINE RORT05Alan Joyce and the politiciansTHE AIRLINE RORT06The frequent flyer financial machineTHE AIRLINE RORT07What the media coveredTHE AIRLINE RORT08What would fix itTHE AIRLINE RORT
The Inflation Rort
01The two inflationsTHE INFLATION RORT02GreedflationTHE INFLATION RORT03Why the RBA did all the workTHE INFLATION RORT06The fiscal tools they didn’t useTHE INFLATION RORT07The political connectionsTHE INFLATION RORT08The reckoningTHE INFLATION RORT
The Roads Rort
04The fuel price cycleTHE ROADS RORT07What the media coveredTHE ROADS RORT08What would fix itTHE ROADS RORT
Australia's Gas Heist
01We gave away the gasAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST06The east coast gas cartelAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST

Nobody wrote this page. It assembled itself from every investigation that names The ACCC, and it deepens automatically each time The Rort publishes another. The more the archive grows, the sharper this dossier gets — and the lobbyist, the donation and the revolving-door minister who recur across all of it become impossible to miss.

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