The Cases

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 …

Coordination between competitors in a crisis was already lawful, and the regulator authorised it in two days when the fuel majors asked. A statute passed in …

A welfare compliance provision ran automated cancellation decisions unlawfully for two years, a finding the Commonwealth Ombudsman's first report confirmed i…

A public crackdown cut the Big Four's share, yet the total federal consultancy bill still climbed to a near-billion-dollar high. The money still leaves the p…

A unanimous parliamentary committee said phase the ads out. The government's own analysis said a full ban delivers double the benefit at half the enforcement…

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 …

Four rises in 2026 have taken the cash rate to 4.60 per cent, the highest since late 2011. The first rise, on 3 February, came before the war began. In its 2…

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…

National nature laws are being wired to an offset market that holds one project and has issued zero certificates. Developers get a cheque-book pathway to cle…

A A$560 million federal fund handed public money out by invitation, not by merit, and sent nearly three-quarters of it to seats the government already held. …

A privately run prison operates under a deed that prices failure by the incident, with an unnatural death in custody charged at $500,000. The law requires a …

Since 2018, businesses and Commonwealth agencies covered by the Privacy Act have had to report data breaches likely to cause serious harm. In 2025 the privac…

The reporting runs one way. A Centrelink recipient given a notice has 14 days to report a change, and failing to comply is an offence; agency officers, not j…

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 leg…

In Australian politics, reputation is the weapon. The traitor smear, the defamation writ, the character-assassination campaign: aimed at witnesses, veterans …

Open justice with a price of admission. Interim secrecy is most available to those with the resources to assemble it, the orders that matter escape the Act t…

From 1 October 2026 the card networks banned surcharges, but the cost of taking cards stayed. The $1.6 billion ministers framed as a saving is the RBA’s esti…

The safeguards on Australia's surveillance powers are theatre: sunsets that get moved instead of triggered, omnibus bills that bury the extensions, and a led…

The regulator calls access to Triple Zero the most important public safety responsibility a telco has. Optus failed it twice in 22 months. After the November…

The 2026 Iran war was run from Mar-a-Lago and is being traded around in the president's own accounts, in oil futures minutes before his posts, in prediction …

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.