● THE INFLATION RORT: Four rises in 2026   ♦ GAS REVENUE FOREGONE: A$537 A SECOND SINCE 1 JULY 2022   ♦ THE INFLATION RORT: Above the 0.25   ♦ THE REPORTING RORT: The fifth system   ♦ THE AIRLINE RORT: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 8 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ THE CARTEL SWITCH: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 1 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ THE COMPLIANCE MACHINE: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 1 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ 105 ENTITIES TRACKED · 101 INVESTIGATIONS · 0 STRUCTURAL BREAK-UPS   ♦ THE SURCHARGE RORT: The cost the Tax Office won’t wear   ♦ THE SURCHARGE RORT: A line off the receipt

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Nine

Where Nine sits in the flow of extraction.

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Nine Entertainment

The other pole of the newspaper-and-TV concentration. Its former CEO now runs the public broadcaster.

Corporate income tax paid · 2023-24
A$20.4m
A small bill against its scale. ATO Corporate Tax Transparency 2023-24.
on total income of A$2.23bn
8
Investigations citing it
3
Topics it recurs across
22
Linked in the graph
2
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Media Ownership66 investigations →The Airline Rort11 investigation →Australia's Gas Heist11 investigation →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

02 / Connected in the graph

Actors in its orbit
News CorpCOMPANY · MEDIA · 7Seven West MediaCOMPANY · MEDIA · 5Kerry StokesPERSON · MAGNATE · 4Anthony AlbanesePERSON · POLITICIAN · 2The ACCCFEDERAL REGULATOR · 1QantasCOMPANY · AVIATION · 1Barnaby JoycePERSON · ONE NATION MP FOR NEW ENGLAND · 1WoodsideCOMPANY · GAS · 1ShellCOMPANY · GAS · 1INPEXCOMPANY · GAS · 1Responsible Wagering AustraliaLOBBY · ONLINE WAGERING · 1MetaACTOR · PLATFORM · 1GoogleACTOR · PLATFORM · 1Bridget McKenziePERSON · SHADOW INFRASTRUCTURE MINISTER, RESIGNED AS SPORTS MINISTER IN 2020 · 1Ben Roberts-SmithPERSON · FORMER SAS SOLDIER, VICTORIA CROSS RECIPIENT · 1
Mechanisms in play
The Revolving DoorMECHANISM · 3Negative GearingMECHANISM · TAX · 2Duopoly & ConcentrationMECHANISM · 1The Chairman's LoungeMECHANISM · LOBBYING · 1The PRRTMECHANISM · TAX · 1Offshore DecommissioningMECHANISM · LIABILITY · 1The News Bargaining IncentiveMECHANISM · LEVY · 1

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