● 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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Virgin Australia

Where Virgin Australia sits in the flow of extraction.

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The duopoly's junior partner and repeated near-casualty, kept alive just enough to hold the market at two.

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94.4%
Qantas Group and Virgin Australia together held 94.4 per cent of all domestic passenger carriage as of March 2025. Bonza's collapse in April 2024 mar… Switzer Daily / ACCC, March 2025
Corporate income tax paid · 2023-24
A$0
A$576m of taxable income in Australia, reduced to nil by carried-forward losses: no income tax payable. ATO Corporate Tax Transparency 2023-24.
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The Airline Rort94.4%Qantas Group and Virgin Australia together held 94.4 per cent of all domestic passenger carriage as of March 2025. Bonza's collapse in April 2024 m…3 investigations →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑04‑03Auto-assembled

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