● 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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Transurban

Where Transurban sits in the flow of extraction.

TRANSURBAN · ESTIMATED FLOW OFFSHORE
≈A$2.7bn/yr
to shareholders · FY25 EBITDA A$2.676bn on a 75% toll-road margin
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ENTITY / ACTORCOMPANY · TOLL ROADSSTATUS · EscalatingACROSS · 2 TOPICS

Founded 1996 with one road; now holds full or partial ownership of every major toll road in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. A 75% EBITDA margin on a government-granted monopoly.

Estimated flow offshore, each year
≈A$2.7bn/yr
Flowing to shareholders. FY25 EBITDA A$2.676bn on a 75% toll-road margin.
Corporate income tax paid · 2023-24
A$0
No income tax payable through the group's head company for the year. ATO Corporate Tax Transparency 2023-24.
on total income of A$3.25bn
9
Investigations citing it
2
Topics it recurs across
15
Linked in the graph
5
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Roads Rort75.1%EBITDA margin reported by Transurban for the year to June 2025: the margin of a monopoly infrastructure company collecting inflation-linked fees fr…8 investigations →The Inflation Rort11 investigation →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑04Auto-assembled

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