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Transurban

Where Transurban 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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THE RORT · LIVING MODEL OF POWER · ENTITY DOSSIERDOSSIER OPEN — TRACKING
ENTITY / ACTORCOMPANY · TOLL ROADSAPPEARS IN · 2 INVESTIGATIONS

Transurban

STATUS · Escalating

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.

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Every figure below traces to a source in the investigations that name it.
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Investigations citing it
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Topics it recurs across
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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 f…8 investigations →The Inflation Rort11 investigation →

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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