● 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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The PRRT

Where The PRRT sits in the flow of extraction.

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ENTITY / MECHANISMMECHANISM · TAXSTATUS · Broken by designACROSS · 3 TOPICS

Petroleum Resource Rent Tax

The tax designed to make citizens benefit from gas super-profits. It collects almost nothing: deductions and deferrals engineered to defer liability for decades.

Key figure on file
A$1.5 billion
PRRT forecast for 2025–26: less than beer excise, and heading downward. Treasury, Senate Estimates 2026
20
Investigations citing it
3
Topics it recurs across
30
Linked in the graph
8
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Australia's Gas HeistA$1.5 billionPRRT forecast for 2025–26: less than beer excise, and heading downward.14 investigations →The Inflation Rort55 investigations →The War Trade11 investigation →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

02 / Connected in the graph

Mechanisms it runs on
WoodsideCOMPANY · GAS · 14SantosCOMPANY · GAS · 13ChevronCOMPANY · GAS · 11INPEXCOMPANY · GAS · 10ShellCOMPANY · GAS · 9Anthony AlbanesePERSON · POLITICIAN · 9The ACCCFEDERAL REGULATOR · 6Jim ChalmersPERSON · TREASURER · 6The ATOACTOR · AGENCY · 5The RBAFEDERAL REGULATOR · 5One NationPOLITICAL PARTY · 4ColesCOMPANY · SUPERMARKETS · 3WoolworthsCOMPANY · SUPERMARKETS · 3Kerry StokesPERSON · MAGNATE · 3NOPSEMAFEDERAL REGULATOR · 3Australian Banking AssociationLOBBY · BANKING INDUSTRY GROUP · 2PM&CACTOR · DEPARTMENT · 2Gina RinehartPERSON · EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF HANCOCK PROSPECTING · 2TransurbanCOMPANY · TOLL ROADS · 1QantasCOMPANY · AVIATION · 1Donald TrumpPERSON · US PRESIDENT · 1Hancock ProspectingCOMPANY · 1Trump MediaCOMPANY · TRUMP MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY GROUP · 1Barnaby JoycePERSON · ONE NATION MP FOR NEW ENGLAND · 1News CorpCOMPANY · MEDIA · 1NineCOMPANY · MEDIA · 1Seven West MediaCOMPANY · MEDIA · 1
Mechanisms in play
Offshore DecommissioningMECHANISM · LIABILITY · 8The Revolving DoorMECHANISM · 6Regulatory CaptureMECHANISM · 1

03 / The evidence chain

Australia's Gas Heist
01We gave away the gasAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST02Beer, HECS, and the broken taxAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST03What Norway builtAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST04Who profitsAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST05The political connectionsAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST06How they killed the mining taxAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST07Why nothing changesAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST08What the media covers and howAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST09The decommissioning rortAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST10The east coast gas cartelAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST11Gas and climate: the final rortAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST: FINAL12The A$60 billion boomerang: who cleans up the offshore rigs when the gas money is goneAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST13The inquiry that couldn't agreeAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST14The boom that paid Woodside backAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST
The Inflation Rort
03Why the RBA did all the workTHE INFLATION RORT07The political connectionsTHE INFLATION RORT16Is it the only way?THE INFLATION RORT18Seven votes for a gas export tax, all lostTHE INFLATION RORT19The grillTHE INFLATION RORT
The War Trade
03The Australian positionTHE WAR TRADE

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