● 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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Reserve Bank of Australia

The central bank that did 'all the work' on inflation through rate rises borne by borrowers: cover under which corporate margins widened.

Key figure on file
0.25
NAB’s variable home loan rise from 9 October 2026, the same as the Reserve Bank’s rise in the cash rate. Neither NAB’s release nor its customer notic… NAB release and customer notice, 30 September 2026
22
Investigations citing it
2
Topics it recurs across
29
Linked in the graph
8
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Inflation Rort0.25NAB’s variable home loan rise from 9 October 2026, the same as the Reserve Bank’s rise in the cash rate. Neither NAB’s release nor its customer not…20 investigations →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 2026‑10‑04Auto-assembled

02 / Connected in the graph

Actors in its orbit
The ACCCFEDERAL REGULATOR · 14Jim ChalmersPERSON · TREASURER · 9ColesCOMPANY · SUPERMARKETS · 8WoolworthsCOMPANY · SUPERMARKETS · 8Australian Banking AssociationLOBBY · BANKING INDUSTRY GROUP · 7WoodsideCOMPANY · GAS · 6Anthony AlbanesePERSON · POLITICIAN · 6SantosCOMPANY · GAS · 4One NationPOLITICAL PARTY · 3ChevronCOMPANY · GAS · 2INPEXCOMPANY · GAS · 2The ATOACTOR · AGENCY · 2VisaCOMPANY · PAYMENTS · 2MastercardCOMPANY · PAYMENTS · 2eftposCOMPANY · PAYMENTS · 2American ExpressCOMPANY · PAYMENTS · 2ACCILOBBY · BUSINESS PEAK BODY · 2COSBOALOBBY · SMALL BUSINESS PEAK BODY · 2ShellCOMPANY · GAS · 1TransurbanCOMPANY · TOLL ROADS · 1QantasCOMPANY · AVIATION · 1Commonwealth OmbudsmanACTOR · WATCHDOG · 1Services AustraliaACTOR · AGENCY · 1Pauline HansonPERSON · SENATOR, ONE NATION LEADER · 1pay.com.auCOMPANY · PAYMENTS · 1
Mechanisms in play
The PRRTMECHANISM · TAX · 5Interchange feesMECHANISM · CARD FEES · 2Duopoly & ConcentrationMECHANISM · 1The Big FourMECHANISM · CONSULTANCY · 1

03 / The evidence chain

The Inflation Rort
01The two inflationsTHE INFLATION RORT02GreedflationTHE INFLATION RORT03Why the RBA did all the workTHE INFLATION RORT04Who rate rises hurtTHE INFLATION RORT05Who rate rises helpedTHE INFLATION RORT06The fiscal tools they didn’t useTHE INFLATION RORT07The political connectionsTHE INFLATION RORT08The reckoningTHE INFLATION RORT09Four rises in 2026THE INFLATION RORT10A global war, a national rateTHE INFLATION RORT11What a rate rise buysTHE INFLATION RORT12Who pays for the risesTHE INFLATION RORT13Are corporations untouched?THE INFLATION RORT14The savers’ shareTHE INFLATION RORT15What the Reserve Bank pays the banksTHE INFLATION RORT16Is it the only way?THE INFLATION RORT17Nine people, one rateTHE INFLATION RORT18Seven votes for a gas export tax, all lostTHE INFLATION RORT19The grillTHE INFLATION RORT24Above the 0.25THE INFLATION RORT
The Surcharge Rort
01A line off the receiptTHE SURCHARGE RORT02The cost the Tax Office won’t wearTHE SURCHARGE RORT

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