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The Revolving Door

Where The Revolving Door sits in the flow of extraction.

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The traffic between public office and the industries office once regulated: ministers who wrote the laws, then worked for the beneficiaries. An 18-month cooling-off period against a five-year problem.

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Named across 13 investigations and 5 topics. Its hold is structural, not a single line item.
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Topics it recurs across
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Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Australia's Gas Heist66 investigations →Media Ownership33 investigations →The Roads Rort22 investigations →The Consultancy Rort11 investigation →The Nature Rort11 investigation →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑07Auto-assembled

02 / Connected in the graph

Mechanisms it runs on
INPEXCOMPANY · GAS · 5Anthony AlbanesePERSON · POLITICIAN · 5SantosCOMPANY · GAS · 4ShellCOMPANY · GAS · 4Kerry StokesPERSON · MAGNATE · 4News CorpCOMPANY · MEDIA · 4WoodsideCOMPANY · GAS · 3ChevronCOMPANY · GAS · 3NineCOMPANY · MEDIA · 3Seven West MediaCOMPANY · MEDIA · 3TransurbanCOMPANY · TOLL ROADS · 2Sydney AirportCOMPANY · INFRASTRUCTURE · 2PM&CACTOR · DEPARTMENT · 2The ACCCFEDERAL REGULATOR · 1NOPSEMAFEDERAL REGULATOR · 1The ATOACTOR · AGENCY · 1Jim ChalmersPERSON · TREASURER · 1One NationPOLITICAL PARTY · 1Responsible Wagering AustraliaLOBBY · ONLINE WAGERING · 1Gina RinehartPERSON · EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF HANCOCK PROSPECTING · 1Nous GroupCOMPANY · CONSULTANCY · 1McGrathNicolCOMPANY · CONSULTANCY · 1
Mechanisms in play
The PRRTMECHANISM · TAX · 6Regulatory CaptureMECHANISM · 3Offshore DecommissioningMECHANISM · LIABILITY · 2Negative GearingMECHANISM · TAX · 1The Nature Repair MarketMECHANISM · MARKET · 1The Big FourMECHANISM · CONSULTANCY · 1

03 / The evidence chain

Australia's Gas Heist
05The 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 HEIST10The east coast gas cartelAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST13The inquiry that couldn't agreeAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST
Media Ownership
01Who owns the news you think you’re readingAUSTRALIAN MEDIA05The revolving door between politics and mediaMEDIA OWNERSHIP SERIES06501,876 signatures and nothing happenedMEDIA OWNERSHIP SERIES: FINAL
The Roads Rort
03Transurban: the monopolyTHE ROADS RORT05The political connectionsTHE ROADS RORT
The Consultancy Rort
01The crackdown that cost moreTHE CONSULTANCY RORT
The Nature Rort
01The pay-to-clear switch: national approvals wired to an offset market with two projects and zero certificatesTHE NATURE RORT

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