👤 Melissa Cunningham

9 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
9
2026-09-16 – 2026-10-26
Claims per article
56
502 extracted in total
Hedged claims
3%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
7,880
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

Health
89%
Sports
11%
Most-tagged topics
VictorianMelbourneAustraliaAustralianVictoriaAustralasian College for Emergency Medicine VictoriaAustralian Medical Association VictoriaDepartment of General Practice

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1 scored article; 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

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2026-10-20 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports
‘Chilling’: Coroner rejects Sportsbet’s defence in young man’s suicide
3 outlets covered this event
2026-10-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
Doula ‘groomed’ mother to view hospital care as failure before fatal home birth, coroner told
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
‘System is in crisis’: Thousands of doctors to walk off the job over safety fears
2 outlets covered this event
2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
20 new emergency beds left empty at RCH due to staffing shortage: leaked email
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
Inside the storm: On the front line of Victoria’s stretched emergency departments
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
‘Existing in technicolour’: Inside a doctor’s journey through psychosis, wreckage and recovery
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘It was crippling’: New endometriosis plan aims to save women from years of agony
🔮 It would take more than six years for doctors to finally diagnose Tennant with endometriosis, a chronic, inflammatory condition in which tissue similar to the inner lining of the uterus grows in other parts of the body, causing episodes of severe, often crippling pain. assertive
2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Pushed, kicked, spat on’: ED staff demand 24/7 security as violence hits record levels
🔮 “This could be being told that that person’s going to kill you or come after your family or do other horrible things and hearing them say revolting things to the person next to you assertive
2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald
20 new emergency beds left empty at RCH due to staffing shortage: leaked email
🔮 Twenty new emergency beds at the Royal Children’s Hospital will be left empty when a long-awaited, multimillion-dollar redevelopment is completed in November because the health service lacks the staff to use them, a damning leaked internal email reveals. assertive
2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Discharging themselves in disgust’: Funding shortfall leaves new $1.5b Footscray Hospital understaffed, beds closed
🔮 The state government has maintained that Footscray Hospital will eventually open more than 500 beds, 268 more than the old hospital, allowing Western Health to treat an extra 15,000 patients each year. assertive
2026-09-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Existing in technicolour’: Inside a doctor’s journey through psychosis, wreckage and recovery
🔮 “I tend to always go with I Will Survive or Whitney Houston’s I Have Nothing … something diva like that,” he laughs. assertive
2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘System is in crisis’: Thousands of doctors to walk off the job over safety fears
🔮 Thousands of doctors from the state’s major hospitals will walk off the job on Thursday afternoon as part of their ongoing dispute with the government over pay and working conditions. assertive
2026-10-20 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Chilling’: Coroner rejects Sportsbet’s defence in young man’s suicide
🔮 A visibly emotional Lawrie held back tears when addressing Hudson’s family who were sitting in the front row of the court, telling them he could only imagine how difficult it had been for them to sit through the inquest. “Kyle was a young man brimming with promise,” Lawrie said. assertive
2026-10-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Inside the storm: On the front line of Victoria’s stretched emergency departments
🔮 “They’ve got diabetes, high blood pressure, heart failure, they may have cancer, or kidney failure. assertive
2026-10-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Doula ‘groomed’ mother to view hospital care as failure before fatal home birth, coroner told
🔮 During the 30-minute-long conversation, Lal could be heard telling Warnecke that a long, painful labour was a personal transformation journey for the mother, describing it as “the death of the maiden” and “birth of the woman”. assertive
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