1. Find out what your own super owns
Your fund must publish its portfolio holdings disclosure — a full list of what it invests your money in — at least twice a year, usually on its website. Search it for the names on this site: Transurban, IFM Investors, Ausgrid, the airports, WestConnex. You may well find you are a part-owner of the toll road you drive and the power network that bills you.
- Search your fund's site for "portfolio holdings disclosure".
- Look for infrastructure, IFM Investors, and the specific assets. Note the management fees while you're there.
- Ask your fund, in writing, what share of your balance is invested in monopoly infrastructure that charges Australian households — and what fees it earns on it. Why this matters →
2. Prise open a contract (freedom of information)
Every state has an FOI / "right to information" regime. It won't get you everything — expect "commercial-in-confidence" refusals — but every refusal is itself on the record, and refusals get overturned on review more often than agencies like to admit. Here's a starting template.
To the Right to Information / FOI Officer, Under the applicable freedom-of-information legislation in this jurisdiction, I request access to the following documents concerning the [NAME OF PROJECT] public-private partnership / concession: 1. The executed project deed / concession contract, including any schedules dealing with pricing, toll or charge escalation, and payment obligations of the State. 2. The "public sector comparator" and any value-for-money assessment prepared to justify delivering this project as a PPP rather than by public procurement. 3. Any documents recording renegotiations, variations, extensions or compensation payments made to the private party since financial close. 4. The risk allocation matrix agreed between the State and the private party. Where any document is withheld as "commercial-in-confidence" or otherwise exempt, please: (a) identify the document and the specific exemption relied on, and (b) release it in redacted form with only the exempt material removed, together with a statement of reasons. I am happy to receive documents electronically. I consider release to be in the public interest, as this project is funded and used by the public. Regards, [YOUR NAME]
This is a plain-English starting point, not legal advice — each state's FOI/RTI scheme has its own forms, fees and time limits. Search "[your state] right to information / FOI" for the correct agency and process.
3. Put the question to your MP — in writing
The strength of this whole site is that none of it was ever put to a vote. Make your representative say so on the record. A short, specific letter is harder to dodge than a petition.
- Ask: "Will you support publishing the full terms of infrastructure PPPs in our state, with commercial-in-confidence as a rare exception rather than the default?"
- Ask: "Will you support a rule that no public monopoly asset is sold or leased beyond [e.g. 15 years] without a public vote?"
- Ask: "Do you support banning above-CPI escalation clauses on essential-service monopolies, as an anti-cost-of-living measure?" Why →
4. Change who gets to decide
Every practical step above is a patch. The disease is that a handful of people can sign away common wealth without asking the people who own it. The Radical Party's whole reason to exist is to fix that at the root — direct, radical democracy, where you vote on the policies, propose them, and veto the deals done to you without consent.
Work inside a treasury, a super fund, an infrastructure manager or a toll operator? We work with whistleblowers. If you can show what the "commercial-in-confidence" stamp is hiding — a contract, a renegotiation, a conflict — reach us confidentially at whistle@theradicalparty.com. Every figure on this site came from the public record; the next one could come from you.
Cross-references: What works · The secrecy · Your own money · All the sources.