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Sydney Airport

Where Sydney Airport sits in the flow of extraction.

Gas revenue foregone · since 2022/07/01
A$68,017,708,800
▲ ~A$537/sec · Punter's Politics / Rort tracking, since 1 Jul 2022
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Sydney Airport

STATUS · Ongoing

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

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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 →

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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