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Duopoly & Concentration

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ENTITY / MECHANISMMECHANISMSTATUS · SystemicACROSS · 2 TOPICS

Two players, most of a market: Qantas + Virgin on 94–99% of flights, Coles + Woolworths on 67% of groceries, News Corp + Nine across most of the media. The shared structure under the rorts.

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The duopoly is protected by at least five structural barriers: peak slot control at Sydney Airport, network depth across connecting routes, loyalty p… ACCC / Senate inquiry analysis
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The Airline Rort5 barriersThe duopoly is protected by at least five structural barriers: peak slot control at Sydney Airport, network depth across connecting routes, loyalty…4 investigations →The Inflation Rort11 investigation →
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Nobody wrote this page. It assembled itself from every investigation that names Duopoly & Concentration, 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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