● 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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Duopoly & Concentration

Where Duopoly & Concentration sits in the flow of extraction.

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Duopoly & Concentration

STATUS · Systemic

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 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 →

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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