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The Chairman's Lounge

Where The Chairman's Lounge sits in the flow of extraction.

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ENTITY / MECHANISMMECHANISM · LOBBYINGAPPEARS IN · 1 INVESTIGATION

The Chairman's Lounge

STATUS · Systemic

Qantas's invitation-only lounge — roughly 5,000 members, about 90% of federal parliamentarians. Lobbying that never has to register.

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The Airline Rort~5,000 membersThe Qantas Chairman's Lounge includes approximately 90 per cent of federal parliamentarians. Membership is free, by personal invitation of the CEO,…3 investigations →

Nobody wrote this page. It assembled itself from every investigation that names The Chairman's Lounge, 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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