● THE REPORTING RORT: The inbox checked once a day   ♦ GAS REVENUE FOREGONE: A$71.8BN AND COUNTING   ♦ AUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST: The buyer and the backstop   ♦ MEDIA OWNERSHIP: The levy that was designed to raise nothing   ♦ THE AIRLINE RORT: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 8 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ THE CARTEL SWITCH: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 1 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ THE COMPLIANCE MACHINE: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 1 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ 92 ENTITIES TRACKED · 86 INVESTIGATIONS · 0 STRUCTURAL BREAK-UPS   ♦ THE WAR TRADE: Five dollars   ♦ THE SMEAR: The pattern

Wollongong · Sydney · Australia
Australia's Watchdog
Independent
No ads. No masters.
THE RORT · THE DRAIN

Optus

Where Optus sits in the flow of extraction.

Hover the offshore nodes · click to open a dossier
THE RORT · DOSSIER · OPTUSDOSSIER OPEN · TRACKING
ENTITY / ACTORCOMPANY · TELECOMMUNICATIONSSTATUS · TrackedFIRST TRACKED · 2026ACROSS · 3 TOPICS

Singtel Optus

Telco facing an OAIC civil penalty case, filed over its 2022 data breach, that has no outcome we have found; the OAIC separately found against it in June 2026 over the White Pages breach; separately had two major Triple Zero outages in 22 months, paying just over $12 million in infringement notices after the November 2023 outage and now facing a Federal Court case alleging 1,005 contraventions after the September 2025 outage.

Key figure on file
58 and 57 months
How long the Optus White Pages investigation and the Meta case each ran, on this article’s basis, before either produced an outcome.
5
Investigations citing it
3
Topics it recurs across
17
Linked in the graph
8
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Privacy Rort58 and 57 monthsHow long the Optus White Pages investigation and the Meta case each ran, on this article’s basis, before either produced an outcome.2 investigations →The Triple Zero Rort605 numbers, 150 throughBy Optus's own count: 605 service numbers tried to reach Triple Zero during the outage; 150 got through; the other 455 did not.2 investigations →The Reporting Rort11 investigation →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑07‑06Auto-assembled

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

← THE DOCKET
Instruments
The WatchfloorThe DocketThe LedgerThe DeskThe DrainThe PatchInvestigations
Beats
PoliticsCorporateResourcesEnvironmentHousingMediaHealthJustice
Sections
VoicesWorld WorriersMethodAbout
The Rort
Tip Line
Independent · No ads · No masters · If it's a rort, we cover it
Submit a Tip →
Engine DΛREΛKT_Contract site.therort 1.0.0Core 94216cc946eeBuild 2026-09-26T11:59:16Z