👤 Patrick Hatch

10 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
10
2026-09-15 – 2026-10-25
Claims per article
50
501 extracted in total
Hedged claims
7%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
7,158
characters · 1 tagged analysis
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
80%
Crime & Law
10%
Economy/Business
10%
Most-tagged topics
LaborMelbourneOne NationAustraliaNSWSydneyVictoriaVictorian

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
6 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.
2026-10-20 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Melbourne Assembly LIVE: First home buyers in Carroll’s sights as Labor pledges $1b election sweetener
4 outlets covered this event
2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
$285m COVID cover-up exposed by whistleblowers
3 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
‘In prison by Christmas’: One Nation attacks Andrews, Allan in campaign launch
3 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Level crossings on hold as Labor vows to fix Melbourne’s most unreliable train line
2 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
‘Petrol’s paid for’: Carroll kicks off re-election campaign in Geelong
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
One Nation candidate called to ‘decolonise’ Muslim lands
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Carroll pledges random search powers for police to crack down on knife crime
🔮 Police and PSOs would have the power to randomly search people anywhere in public with metal detectors, without needing a warrant or reasonable suspicion they have a weapon, under an election promise by Premier Ben Carroll. assertive
2026-09-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘You can’t put everything on immigration’: The suburbs at breaking point
🔮 “We are very much in the mind for the western suburbs of Sydney,” One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce declared after the party won the Farrer byelection in May. assertive
2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Growth is good’: The towns avoiding the rural death spiral
🔮 The impact compounds as the years roll on, then steams home when those left behind realise all they once knew might one day be gone. assertive
2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Level crossings on hold as Labor vows to fix Melbourne’s most unreliable train line
🔮 Premier Ben Carroll will on Monday announce a funding commitment of $80 million over two years to kickstart work on building a second track on the Upfield line, which will slash wait times for commuters in suburbs including Broadmeadows, Dallas, Campbellfield and Fawkner. assertive
2026-10-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘In prison by Christmas’: One Nation attacks Andrews, Allan in campaign launch
🔮 Party founder Pauline Hanson helped present the 93 candidates who will contest every lower house and upper house seat in the November 28 poll, while railing against the legacy of 12 years of Labor government. assertive
2026-10-11 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Build up or lock out: How Melbourne’s housing ‘success’ is set to divide voters
🔮 Grattan Institute housing expert Matthew Bowes said affordability and the supply of new housing would have declined more in response to rising interest rates and construction costs, if not for the state government’s overhaul of the planning system. assertive
2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald
One Nation candidate called to ‘decolonise’ Muslim lands
🔮 One Nation is currently polling at a 23 per cent primary vote, according to the latest Resolve Political Monitor conducted for this masthead, suggesting the party will for the first time have a significant presence in the next Victorian parliament. assertive
2026-10-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Petrol’s paid for’: Carroll kicks off re-election campaign in Geelong
🔮 The first stop in trying to win over voters was Geelong’s University Hospital, where Carroll, flanked by Deputy Premier Gabrielle Williams and Health Minister Ingrid Stitt, announced Labor would spend $1.5 billion over four years to tackle chronic emergency department wait times. assertive
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