● Watson Foundation rams Norwegian krill trawler in Antarctic waters   ♦ Murdoch empire holds 70% of print circulation   ♦ Australia gave away $300B in gas — Norway built a sovereign wealth fund   ♦ Kerry Stokes: mining magnate, media owner, political donor   ♦ Negative gearing costs taxpayers $6B per year   ♦ How they killed the mining tax   ♦ The revolving door between politics and media

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THE RORT · LIVING MODEL OF POWER · THE CASESCASES OPEN — TRACKING
INVESTIGATIONS52 ARTICLES ACROSS 6 CASES

The Cases

Every investigation The Rort runs is a numbered piece of evidence in an open case. Pick a case; read it end to end.

CASE FILE · CORPORATEOngoing · unresolved
The Airline Rort
A duopoly for most of 35 years. Eight challengers tried to break it; every one failed or was absorbed. Fares stay above pre-COVID levels while the regulator …
8 investigationsThe ACCC · Qantas · Duopoly & Concentration
CASE FILE · RESOURCESOngoing · unresolved
Australia's Gas Heist
One of the largest LNG exporters on earth, and Australians pay more for their own gas than the countries it's shipped to. The public tax take is measured in …
11 investigationsThe PRRT · Woodside · INPEX
CASE FILE · CORPORATEOngoing · unresolved
The Inflation Rort
Rate rises did the work while margins widened. The regulator found the supermarket sector 'not working well' — and recommended no structural remedy. Share pr…
8 investigationsThe RBA · The ACCC · Coles
CASE FILE · MEDIAOngoing · unresolved
Media Ownership
Three billionaires and a US conglomerate control almost everything Australians read, watch and hear. The people who wrote the media laws went to work for the…
6 investigationsNews Corp · Nine · Seven West Media
CASE FILE · CORPORATEOngoing · unresolved
The Roads Rort
One company started with a single toll road in 1996 and now holds full or partial ownership of every major toll road in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane — a le…
8 investigationsTransurban · Sydney Airport · The ACCC
DOSSIER · THE OTHER SIDEProfiles
World Worriers
Not a rort — the people on the other side of the ledger. The activists, scientists and disruptors who spent their lives refusing to let it slide.
11 investigations

Cases, not categories. Each case file assembles itself from its evidence chain — the actors named, the money traced, the current status — and deepens with every new article in the series.

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