● THE INFLATION RORT: Four rises in 2026   ♦ GAS REVENUE FOREGONE: A$537 A SECOND SINCE 1 JULY 2022   ♦ THE SURCHARGE RORT: The cost the Tax Office won’t wear   ♦ THE SURCHARGE RORT: A line off the receipt   ♦ THE AIRLINE RORT: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 8 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ THE CARTEL SWITCH: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 1 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ THE COMPLIANCE MACHINE: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 1 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ 102 ENTITIES TRACKED · 99 INVESTIGATIONS · 0 STRUCTURAL BREAK-UPS   ♦ THE INFLATION RORT: The grill

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Where Mastercard sits in the flow of extraction.

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Mastercard Australia

Designated card network. Imposed a no-surcharge rule from 1 October 2026; told the RBA in 2025 that surcharging is antiquated and a ban is required, while objecting to interchange changes made before all participants are regulated. Its 2025 submission is the only source the RBA footnotes for its line that cash is no longer clearly cheaper to accept.

Key figure on file
$1.6 billion
Card surcharges the RBA estimates consumers paid in 2024/25 on the eftpos, Mastercard and Visa networks, out of about $1.8 billion in all; businesses…
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The Surcharge Rort$1.6 billionCard surcharges the RBA estimates consumers paid in 2024/25 on the eftpos, Mastercard and Visa networks, out of about $1.8 billion in all; business…2 investigations →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑10‑03Auto-assembled

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