THE RORT · DOSSIER · MASTERCARDSTATUS · TRACKED
The ACCC: named together in 2 articlesThe ACCCACCI: named together in 2 articlesACCIAmerican Express: named together in 2 articlesAmerican ExpressThe ATO: named together in 2 articlesThe ATOAustralian Banking Association: named together in 2 articlesAustralian Banking As…COSBOA: named together in 2 articlesCOSBOAeftpos: named together in 2 articleseftposJim Chalmers: named together in 2 articlesJim ChalmersThe RBA: named together in 2 articlesThe RBAVisa: named together in 2 articlesVisaAnthony Albanese: named together in 1 articleAnthony AlbaneseCommonwealth Ombudsman: named together in 1 articleCommonwealth OmbudsmanInterchange fees: named together in 1 articleInterchange feesOne Nation: named together in 1 articlePauline Hanson: named together in 1 articlepay.com.au: named together in 1 articleServices Australia: named together in 1 article
DOSSIER / ACTORCOMPANY · PAYMENTS

Mastercard

Mastercard Australia

Status Tracked

Designated card network. Imposed a no-surcharge rule from 1 October 2026; told the RBA in 2025 that surcharging is antiquated and a ban is required, while objecting to interchange changes made before all participants are regulated. Its 2025 submission is the only source the RBA footnotes for its line that cash is no longer clearly cheaper to accept.

First tracked
2026
Last on record
2026-10-03
Named in
2 articles
Across
1 case

Named in 2 articles across 1 case 17 connections: companies 4, lobbies 3, mechanisms 1, regulators and bodies 3, agencies and departments 2, parties and organisations 1, people 3

Key figure on file
$1.6 billion
Card surcharges the RBA estimates consumers paid in 2024/25 on the eftpos, Mastercard and Visa networks, out of about $1.8 billion in all; businesses…
2
Articles naming it
1
Cases it recurs across
17
Linked in the graph
2
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Surcharge Rort$1.6 billionCard surcharges the RBA estimates consumers paid in 2024/25 on the eftpos, Mastercard and Visa networks, out of about $1.8 billion in all; business…2 articles →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑10‑03Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

  1. $1.6 billionCard surcharges the RBA estimates consumers paid in 2024/25 on the eftpos, Mastercard and Visa networks, out of about $1.8 billion in all; businesses paid the other $0.2 billion. It is a bill that was paid, not a measured saving.A line off the receipt →
  2. 0.98 per centThe ATO’s card fee on a domestic Visa credit card until 30 September 2026, set equal to what its bank charged it. Mastercard domestic credit was 0.94 per cent, American Express 1.45 per cent, international Visa and Mastercard 2.03 per cent, and debit cards carried no fee.The cost the Tax Office won’t wear →
Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑10‑03Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 2 articles that name Mastercard, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about Mastercard.

Evidence strength · 98 sources across 2 articles
  • Primary 46
  • Official 35
  • Masthead 7
  • Trade 5
  • Aggregator 4
  • Unusable 1
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

2 of 2 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

MastercardACCI: named together in 2 articlesACCI2American Express: named together in 2 articlesAmerican Express2Australian Banking Association: named together in 2 articlesAustralian Banking Association2COSBOA: named together in 2 articlesCOSBOA2eftpos: named together in 2 articleseftpos2Jim Chalmers: named together in 2 articlesJim Chalmers2The ACCC: named together in 2 articlesThe ACCC2The ATO: named together in 2 articlesThe ATO2The RBA: named together in 2 articlesThe RBA2Visa: named together in 2 articlesVisa2Anthony Albanese: named together in 1 articleAnthony Albanese1Commonwealth Ombudsman: named together in 1 articleCommonwealth Ombudsman1
The 12 names most often in the same articles as Mastercard. 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 2026‑10‑03Auto-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 Mastercard: 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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