👤 Michael Bachelard

11 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
11
2026-09-15 – 2026-10-22
Claims per article
38
413 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,650
characters
Writes for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
82%
World
18%
Most-tagged topics
AustralianBrethrenCoalitionExclusive BrethrenSyriaAfghanAmericanIraq

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
4 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.27 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
‘Just business’: Brethren leaders admit meeting far-right – and Trump
3 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Exclusive Brethren hearing LIVE updates: Church leader Bruce Hales to appear over allegations church campaigned in 2025 election, paid neo-Nazi associates to harass PM
3 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
‘I just give it to them straight in the chest’: Roberts-Smith has no regrets about his military career
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Ben Roberts-Smith’s 2GB interview fact-checked
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Ben Roberts-Smith interview LIVE updates: Alleged war criminal, Victoria Cross recipient speaks with 2GB’s Ben Fordham in pre-recorded interview
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
American right-wing body Turning Point USA backs Exclusive Brethren before hearing
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Of course I’m frightened’: Australian mother flies to son accused of murder in Syria
🔮 Angela Bell plans to fly out this week with human rights lawyer Bernadette Zaydan to Idlib province in Syria as her son, Patrick Stevenson – a 20-year-old convert to Islam – waits in a local prison facing charges that, if proven, could result in the death penalty. assertive
2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘More power to redheads’: Brethren leader backs Hanson, building nuclear bombs
🔮 How thick could you get? assertive
2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Exclusive Brethren leader calls Jews ‘wicked’, ‘infidel’ as Liberals remain silent
🔮 “What will eventually bring in finality to the whole Jewish question, that remains in the hands of Christ and perfectly under the control of God.” assertive
2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Still like a child’: Family believes Australian taken to Syria as a boy could be released soon
🔮 The family of a young Australian taken as a 12-year-old boy to live under Islamic State in 2015 believes he could be released in coming weeks after indications emerging from Iraq that he would not face trial as a criminal. mixed
2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Young Australian caught up in IS could soon come home on passport
🔮 A young Australian taken as a boy to live with the Islamic State was on the brink of travelling home when American soldiers snatched him from a Syrian prison and transported him to Iraq, where he could face trial on terror charges. mixed
2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald
American right-wing body Turning Point USA backs Exclusive Brethren before hearing
🔮 “The Brethren may be the first to face this, but I do not believe they will be the last,” wrote Pastor Lucas Miles, who leads Turning Point USA Faith, in a recent post on social media platform X. assertive
2026-10-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Just business’: Brethren leaders admit meeting far-right – and Trump
🔮 “It had all the credibility of a Melbourne weather forecast,” said Ryan, after the hearing. assertive
2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Ben Roberts-Smith interview LIVE updates: Alleged war criminal, Victoria Cross recipient speaks with 2GB’s Ben Fordham in pre-recorded interview
🔮 Tom Malone, chief executive of Tapt Media, which owns 2GB and 3AW, said the interview will showcase the company’s digital transformation in its new era owned by pokies and publican billionaire family, the Laundys. assertive
2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Ben Roberts-Smith’s 2GB interview fact-checked
🔮 On the practice of using “throw downs” to frame victims as combatants. “We were told to put weapons on the bodies for the photographs because they wanted it all in one photo, so we could send it back. assertive
2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘I just give it to them straight in the chest’: Roberts-Smith has no regrets about his military career
🔮 Ben Roberts-Smith launched a multimedia blitz on Thursday to go with his new clothing label, denying five charges of the war crime of murder ahead of his criminal trial and insisting he would not change a thing from his military career. assertive
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