● 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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Sydney Airport

Where Sydney Airport sits in the flow of extraction.

SYDNEY AIRPORT · ESTIMATED FLOW OFFSHORE
≈A$1.1bn/yr
to infrastructure funds · Privatised monopoly: EBITDA margins into the 80s
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THE RORT · DOSSIER · SYDNEY AIRPORTDOSSIER OPEN · TRACKING
ENTITY / ACTORCOMPANY · INFRASTRUCTURESTATUS · OngoingACROSS · 3 TOPICS

A privatised monopoly earning EBITDA margins into the 80s, facing no competition: the pattern the roads and airport rorts share.

Estimated flow offshore, each year
≈A$1.1bn/yr
Flowing to infrastructure funds. Privatised monopoly: EBITDA margins into the 80s.
Corporate income tax paid · 2022-23
A$0
No income tax payable through the head company, the latest year it appears in the data. ATO Corporate Tax Transparency 2022-23.
on total income of A$147m
8
Investigations citing it
3
Topics it recurs across
11
Linked in the graph
7
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Roads Rort44 investigations →The Airline Rort62%Morning peak take-off slots at Sydney Airport (6am–11am weekdays, mid-2024): Qantas held 103 slots (62 per cent); Virgin held 57 (34 per cent); Rex…3 investigations →The Smear11 investigation →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

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