● 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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How housing became unaffordable, who benefits from the crisis, and the policies that keep it that way. More investigations coming.

Fig. 01 / On this desk · the cases running on this beat

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Fig. 01Source: beat desk · cases assembled from the archiveAs of 2026‑03‑31Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / The evidence · every file on this beat

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03The property platform that owned your property reporterAustralia is in the middle of its worst housing affordability crisis on record. The companies whose media outlets shape the housing policy debate are also the ones mak…
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Nobody curates this desk. It is assembled from every investigation that touches housing: the moment The Rort publishes another, it appears here, and the names that keep surfacing rise on their own.

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