Kerry Stokes

Status Exposed

Mining and media billionaire, political donor. Owns the only major WA newspaper and a TV network reaching 98% of Australians: a mining interest that also owns the news about mining.

Last on record: 2026-03-31
Named in: 6 articles
Across: 2 cases

Named in 6 articles across 2 cases 19 connections: companies 8, lobbies 1, mechanisms 4, regulators and bodies 2, agencies and departments 1, people 3

Key figure on file

30%

Kerry Stokes’ stake in Beach Energy via SGH. His son has served as chairman of Beach Energy’s board, and in August 2020 Media Watch found that one of… SGH Ltd / ABC Media Watch

Articles naming it

Cases it recurs across

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Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Australia's Gas Heist30%Kerry Stokes’ stake in Beach Energy via SGH. His son has served as chairman of Beach Energy’s board, and in August 2020 Media Watch found that one …3 articles →Media OwnershipA$13.3Min costs ordered against Roberts-Smith and ACE together. Stokes used his private company to bankroll a defamation case against a commercial rival, …3 articles →

Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑03‑31Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

30%Kerry Stokes’ stake in Beach Energy via SGH. His son has served as chairman of Beach Energy’s board, and in August 2020 Media Watch found that one of the outlets he then held a stake in gave no hint of the conflict in its first report of the exemption.Source: SGH Ltd / ABC Media WatchWhat the media covers and how →
A$13.3Min costs ordered against Roberts-Smith and ACE together. Stokes used his private company to bankroll a defamation case against a commercial rival, with his lawyers given direct oversight of the litigation.Source: Federal Court of AustraliaThe mining company with a stake in your news →

Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑03‑31Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 6 articles that name Kerry Stokes, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about Kerry Stokes.

Evidence strength · 100 sources across 6 articles

Primary 17
Official 6
Masthead 24
Trade 37
Aggregator 12
Unusable 2
2 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

3 of 6 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

The 12 names most often in the same articles as Kerry Stokes. 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 2026‑03‑31Auto-assembled