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Kerry Stokes

Where Kerry Stokes sits in the flow of extraction.

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Mining and media billionaire, political donor. Owns the only major WA newspaper and a TV network reaching 98% of Australians: a mining interest that also owns the news about mining.

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Kerry Stokes’ stake in Beach Energy via SGH. His son chairs Beach Energy’s board, while his media organisation covers gas policy without disclosing t… Michael West Media / ABC Media Watch
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Australia's Gas Heist30%Kerry Stokes’ stake in Beach Energy via SGH. His son chairs Beach Energy’s board, while his media organisation covers gas policy without disclosing…3 investigations →Media OwnershipA$13.27Min costs ordered against ACE alone. Stokes used his private company to bankroll a defamation case against a commercial rival, with his lawyers give…3 investigations →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑03‑31Auto-assembled

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