👤 Tom McIlroy

3 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
3
2026-09-17 – 2026-09-28
Claims per article
27
81 extracted in total
Hedged claims
10%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,022
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
67%
Health
33%
Most-tagged topics
AustraliaAustralianCoalitionLaborSenateAnthropicFair Care for VeteransOpenAI

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
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 -0.28 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-17 · The Guardian · Politics
Tony Burke rejects farmers’ claims that immigration changes will increase food prices
10 outlets covered this event
2026-09-17 · The Guardian · Health
Labor backs down on veterans’ health services cap after furious backlash from Jacqui Lambie and ex-ADF members
3 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-28 · The Guardian · Politics
Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack
2 outlets covered this event

What they said would happen

2026-09-17 · The Guardian
Labor backs down on veterans’ health services cap after furious backlash from Jacqui Lambie and ex-ADF members
🔮 The government announced it would no longer pursue the cap for allied health services, which had been to come into force on 1 July 2027, after a weeks-long campaign by the opposition, veterans’ groups and independent senator Jacqui Lambie. assertive
2026-09-17 · The Guardian
Tony Burke rejects farmers’ claims that immigration changes will increase food prices
🔮 The farming lobby’s claim that immigration rule changes will increase food prices for households is wrong, Tony Burke has said, describing moves to speed up processing of backpacker visas as a positive step for agriculture. assertive
2026-09-28 · The Guardian
Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack
🔮 The chief executive of Anthropic will turn down an invitation to appear at a Senate committee hearing on AI this week, in the wake of the revelation that OpenAI agents had breached Australian government websites. assertive
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