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Seven West Media

Where Seven West Media sits in the flow of extraction.

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Kerry Stokes's media arm: Western Australia's only major newspaper and a TV network reaching most of the country.

Key figure on file
98%
Percentage of Australians reachable via Seven Network + Sky News (33% stake) Kerry Stokes' Media Reach
Corporate income tax paid · 2023-24
A$20.4m
A modest bill against its reach across the country. ATO Corporate Tax Transparency 2023-24.
on total income of A$1.5bn
5
Investigations citing it
2
Topics it recurs across
14
Linked in the graph
3
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Media Ownership98%Percentage of Australians reachable via Seven Network + Sky News (33% stake)4 investigations →Australia's Gas Heist11 investigation →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑03‑31Auto-assembled

Nobody wrote this page. It assembled itself from every investigation that names Seven West Media, 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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