● 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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Kerry Stokes

Where Kerry Stokes sits in the flow of extraction.

Gas revenue foregone · since 2022/07/01
A$68,017,708,800
▲ ~A$537/sec · Punter's Politics / Rort tracking, since 1 Jul 2022
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Kerry Stokes

STATUS · Exposed

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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Investigations citing it
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Topics it recurs across
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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 →

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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