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
73%
Crime & Law
9%
Entertainment
9%
Health
9%
Most-tagged topics
ABCCanberraLaborNSWSydneyAlbaneseCBDCoalition
Leaning
Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 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 -0.26
(leans left).
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Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 And that’s before factoring in the will-he-won’t-he speculation over whether Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn would be among the major corporates to show face for the get-together at the Sofitel hotel in Sydney’s CBD on Tuesday evening. assertive
🔮 Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn’s lonely corporate support of the Albanese government’s May budget has (among other things) given the banking stalwart renewed celebrity status in the halls of Parliament House. assertive
🔮 The name might look familiar: in 2021 Simone made news in this masthead for falling short in Liberal Party pre-selections ahead of local elections. assertive
🔮 The Monday deadline followed months of legal negotiations between Henderson’s legal team and lawyers for ARN, set to result in the handover of a tranche of text messages, emails and phone records that ARN hopes to leverage in its legal defence. assertive
🔮 After attempting a comeback last year, and cancelling it, McLachlan will appear next month in his own cabaret, music, circus, magic and “gloriously twisted” comedy show titled Schadenfreude. assertive
🔮 The first big question facing Peter V’landys during his reign as rugby league’s newly minted executive chairman was whether or not the NRL could snatch a victory over the AFL in the TV ratings when the dust settles on the 2026 grand final. assertive
🔮 The worst we’ve seen was the brazen taxpayer-funded attempt at a holiday by former Penrith Liberal mayor Tricia Hitchen in 2023: a $200,000 two-week trip meandering between Amsterdam, London and Paris, purportedly to inspect “greenfield airports” like the one coming to western Sydney. assertive
🔮 Wells’ skirmish
Anika Wells′ senior staffers will advise the communications minister to have a good dinner on Wednesday night – preferably a steak, we’re told – before having an early night. assertive
🔮 So an event hosted by TikTok, which promised appearances from the creators that make its “For You feed worth scrolling”, the night before Labor was poised to introduce laws that would force the platform to allow users to opt out of its algorithm, was always going to set tongues wagging. assertive
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