👤 Sarah Basford Canales

16 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
16
2026-09-16 – 2026-10-31
Claims per article
24
383 extracted in total
Hedged claims
9%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,851
characters
Writes for The Guardian.
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
75%
Environment
12%
Crime & Law
6%
Economy/Business
6%
Most-tagged topics
AustraliaGreensWestern AustralianAustralianLaborNineShoebridgethe WA Greens

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 -0.28 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-04 · The Guardian · Crime & Law
Flydubai co-pilot’s time in Australia being investigated by security agencies after alleged cockpit attack
31 outlets covered this event
2026-09-22 · The Guardian · Politics
Australia investigating how F-35 fighter jet parts bound for US went missing in Hong Kong
10 outlets covered this event
2026-09-18 · The Guardian · Politics
Labor’s plans for visa overstayer detention centres branded a ‘Donald Trump twist’ on immigration
10 outlets covered this event
2026-10-19 · The Guardian · Politics
David Shoebridge responds to Jordon Steele-John’s explosive statement as Greens hold emergency meeting
5 outlets covered this event
2026-10-18 · The Guardian · Politics
Jordon Steele-John says ‘I’m not on leave’ and accuses Greens leader of making ‘bad call’ regarding complaints
5 outlets covered this event
2026-10-24 · The Guardian · Politics
Embattled Greens senator Jordon Steele-John confirms leave from parliament after allegations against him made public
4 outlets covered this event

What they said would happen

2026-09-16 · The Guardian
Labor seats get more than 90% of funding distributed under controversial multi-million dollar grants program
🔮 The $568m community grants scheme will be the subject of a Senate inquiry after a report by the Centre for Public Integrity last week revealed the scheme favoured projects in notionally Labor-held electorates, including a $6m grant for a golf club in Anthony Albanese’s electorate. assertive
2026-09-18 · The Guardian
Labor’s plans for visa overstayer detention centres branded a ‘Donald Trump twist’ on immigration
🔮 Burke said 100 new compliance officers would be hired to round up overstayers, and an additional 250 beds would be freed, as well as potentially repurposing a 100-bed quarantine facility in Victoria. assertive
2026-09-22 · The Guardian
Australia investigating how F-35 fighter jet parts bound for US went missing in Hong Kong
🔮 The acting prime minister said “very much everything that has occurred at the Australian end” will be reviewed, however, he claimed the technology parts were not “sensitive”, as first reported by Politico over the weekend. mixed
2026-09-23 · The Guardian
Angus Taylor pledges to repeal swathe of climate policies, saying ‘Australia has done its bit’
🔮 Angus Taylor has vowed to repeal a raft of emissions reduction and renewable energy policies, including several measures supported by or introduced under past Coalition governments, within a month of being elected prime minister, prompting accusations he would “let climate change rip”. assertive
2026-10-04 · The Guardian
Flydubai co-pilot’s time in Australia being investigated by security agencies after alleged cockpit attack
🔮 “The Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team (VIC JCTT), comprising the AFP, Victoria Police and ASIO, can confirm it is investigating the man’s links to Australia,” an AFP spokesperson said. “An update will be provided at an appropriate time.” assertive
2026-10-04 · The Guardian
Chalmers says global economic turmoil will drive budget cuts, but Australia should avoid recession
🔮 “No serious observer of what’s going on right now would conclude anything other than [that],” he told ABC’s Insiders. assertive
2026-10-05 · The Guardian
One Nation to establish headquarters in multimillion dollar Brisbane office bought by Gina Rinehart
🔮 The One Nation MP said the party’s national head office would pay the market rate to Rinehart’s company to rent the space, claiming there would be no mate’s rates. assertive
2026-10-14 · The Guardian
Australian industry reliant on gas for ‘foreseeable future’, resources minister tells press club
🔮 The resources minister, Madeleine King, says Australian industry will be reliant on gas for the “foreseeable future”, and that the national gas reservation scheme will push down power prices. But the Western Australian MP did not put a price tag on the cost of gas under the proposal– as the former opposition leader, Peter Dutton, once did – nor predict when households and businesses would start to see that financial relief. The national gas reservation scheme will force gas companies to set aside 20% of exports for domestic use, and is expected to come into effect from January 2028. assertive
2026-10-15 · The Guardian
Resources minister faces calls to correct her claim all Beetaloo emissions will be offset
🔮 The resources minister, Madeleine King, is facing calls to correct her claim in a major speech that all greenhouse gas emissions from developing a massive fossil fuel basin in the Northern Territory will be offset to limit their impact on the climate. assertive
2026-10-16 · The Guardian
Greens leader denies knowledge of ‘secret dossier’ on how to handle Jordon Steele-John misconduct allegations
🔮 Steele-John confirmed he would leave the party room on Thursday after some details of historical complaints about inappropriate comments made to women ranging between 2017 and 2025 were publicly aired in the media. assertive
2026-10-18 · The Guardian
Jordon Steele-John says ‘I’m not on leave’ and accuses Greens leader of making ‘bad call’ regarding complaints
🔮 Steele-John said some of the letter’s authors and signatories may have signed the letter out of “genuine commitment” to people who experienced violence but he was angry it had been politicised. assertive
2026-10-19 · The Guardian
David Shoebridge responds to Jordon Steele-John’s explosive statement as Greens hold emergency meeting
🔮 Nine newspapers reported last week that seven party members had demanded an investigation into allegations Steel-John had acted inappropriately towards women between 2017 and 2025. Steele-John, in his Sunday night statement, said he was not on leave, contrary to Shoebridge’s comments last week, and claimed he had been pressured by the leader to request leave on Thursday as Nine’s story was breaking. “I feel that he used those meetings to repeatedly pressure me to say that I would take leave,” Steele-John said on Sunday. assertive
2026-10-23 · The Guardian
Jordon Steele-John’s position remains in limbo as Greens prepare for moment in spotlight
🔮 Only if two-thirds of the party room - or more than seven members - decided to expel him in a secret ballot, would Steele-John have no option but to comply. assertive
2026-10-24 · The Guardian
Embattled Greens senator Jordon Steele-John confirms leave from parliament after allegations against him made public
🔮 Jordon Steele-John has confirmed he will not attend parliament next week as the embattled Greens senator releases a letter detailing the allegations against him. assertive
2026-10-27 · The Guardian
Albanese concedes $6m golf club grant in his electorate was not to contain ‘raw sewage’
🔮 In question time in early September, the prime minister told the house the money would go toward “an environmental project stopping raw sewage going into the Cooks River during flooding”. assertive
2026-10-31 · The Guardian
A top-secret spy mission, a decades-old scandal – and the Austin Powers-esque saga to lift the lid
🔮 A campaign to uncover any documents relating to whether Australian spies bugged Timor-Leste to gain the upper hand in sensitive oil and gas negotiations will be a little less secret after a critical win by the former senator Rex Patrick. assertive
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