THE RORT · DOSSIER · DUOPOLY & CONCENTRATIONSTATUS · SYSTEMIC
The ACCC: named together in 5 articlesThe ACCCQantas: named together in 4 articlesQantasVirgin Australia: named together in 3 articlesVirgin AustraliaAnthony Albanese: named together in 2 articlesAnthony AlbaneseBarnaby Joyce: named together in 2 articlesBarnaby JoyceThe Chairman's Lounge: named together in 2 articlesThe Chairman's LoungeSydney Airport: named together in 2 articlesSydney AirportACCI: named together in 1 articleACCIAlan Joyce: named together in 1 articleAlan JoyceColes: named together in 1 articleColesNews Corp: named together in 1 articleNews CorpNine: named together in 1 articleNineThe RBA: named together in 1 articleThe RBAWoolworths: named together in 1 article
DOSSIER / MECHANISMMECHANISM

Duopoly & Concentration

Status Systemic

Two players, most of a market: Qantas + Virgin on almost 99% of domestic flights, Coles + Woolworths on 67% of groceries, News Corp + Nine across most of the media. The shared structure under the rorts.

Last on record
2026-04
Named in
5 articles
Across
2 cases

Named in 5 articles across 2 cases 14 connections: companies 7, lobbies 2, regulators and bodies 2, people 3

Key figure on file
5 barriers
The duopoly is protected by at least five structural barriers: peak slot control at Sydney Airport, network depth across connecting routes, loyalty p… ACCC / Senate inquiry analysis
5
Articles naming it
2
Cases it recurs across
14
Linked in the graph
1
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Airline Rort5 barriersThe duopoly is protected by at least five structural barriers: peak slot control at Sydney Airport, network depth across connecting routes, loyalty…4 articles →The Inflation Rort11 article →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑04Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

  1. 5 barriersThe duopoly is protected by at least five structural barriers: peak slot control at Sydney Airport, network depth across connecting routes, loyalty program lock-in across 17.6 million members, dominance of the high-margin corporate travel segment, and capital requirements that demand sustained loss-making periods to overcome. Any new entrant must navigate all five simultaneously against incumbents who have advantages in all five.Source: ACCC / Senate inquiry analysisThe duopoly →
Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑04Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 5 articles that name Duopoly & Concentration, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about Duopoly & Concentration.

Evidence strength · 86 sources across 5 articles
  • Primary 32
  • Official 3
  • Masthead 9
  • Trade 19
  • Aggregator 8
  • Unusable 2
  • 13 not yet graded
Primary
the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official
the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead
a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade
specialist or trade press
Aggregator
republishes others’ work
Unusable
its own sourcing cannot be established
How sources are graded

4 of 5 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

Duopoly & ConcentrationThe ACCC: named together in 5 articlesThe ACCC5Qantas: named together in 4 articlesQantas4Virgin Australia: named together in 3 articlesVirgin Australia3Anthony Albanese: named together in 2 articlesAnthony Albanese2Barnaby Joyce: named together in 2 articlesBarnaby Joyce2Sydney Airport: named together in 2 articlesSydney Airport2The Chairman's Lounge: named together in 2 articlesThe Chairman's Lounge2ACCI: named together in 1 articleACCI1Alan Joyce: named together in 1 articleAlan Joyce1Coles: named together in 1 articleColes1News Corp: named together in 1 articleNews Corp1Nine: named together in 1 articleNine1
The 12 names most often in the same articles as Duopoly & Concentration. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.
Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑04Auto-assembled

How this page is assembled. The name, status and role are the desk's entity record. The article list, case counts, connections and the figures under On the record are read by script from the published articles that name Duopoly & Concentration: the desk's key figures where it declared them, otherwise figures harvested from those articles. A connection is a name that appears in the same articles; it is not a finding about the relationship. Under How we know, the sources are those articles' references, counted once each and tiered only where the desk declared a tier; a grade beside an article is its weakest headline finding, shown only where every headline finding is graded. The page is rebuilt when an article is published or changed.

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