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Coles

Where Coles sits in the flow of extraction.

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ENTITY / ACTORCOMPANY · SUPERMARKETSSTATUS · ExposedACROSS · 3 TOPICS

Half of the grocery duopoly (~29% share). The ACCC found margin expansion during the worst inflation in a generation, and misleading pricing across hundreds of products.

Key figure on file
67%
of supermarket grocery sales controlled by Woolworths and Coles, in a sector the ACCC describes as ‘oligopolistic’ with ‘limited incentive to compete… ACCC Supermarkets Inquiry final report, March 2025
Corporate income tax paid · 2023-24
A$467m
Like its twin, it pays close to the full company rate on taxable income: the rort is in the margins, not the tax bill. ATO Corporate Tax Transparency 2023-24.
on total income of A$48.9bn
10
Investigations citing it
3
Topics it recurs across
18
Linked in the graph
4
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

Nobody wrote this page. It assembled itself from every investigation that names Coles, 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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