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Woolworths

Where Woolworths sits in the flow of extraction.

WOOLWORTHS · ESTIMATED FLOW OFFSHORE
≈A$2.2bn/yr
to shareholders · 67% of groceries; margins expanded through the inflation peak (ACCC)
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THE RORT · DOSSIER · WOOLWORTHSDOSSIER OPEN · TRACKING
ENTITY / ACTORCOMPANY · SUPERMARKETSSTATUS · ExposedACROSS · 3 TOPICS

The larger half of the grocery duopoly (~38% share). Highest-in-the-world EBIT margins; misleading pricing on 266 products over 20 months during the inflation peak.

Estimated flow offshore, each year
≈A$2.2bn/yr
Flowing to shareholders. 67% of groceries; margins expanded through the inflation peak (ACCC).
Corporate income tax paid · 2023-24
A$767m
Pays close to the full company rate on its taxable income. Its rort is measured in margins, not the tax bill. ATO Corporate Tax Transparency 2023-24.
on total income of A$56.6bn
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Investigations citing it
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Topics it recurs across
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Linked in the graph
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Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑09‑29Auto-assembled

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