The Aporia · Chip Le Grand

Articles

3

2026-09-23 – 2026-10-01

Claims per article

30

91 extracted in total

Hedged claims

4%

corpus average 9%

Typical length

5,763

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.

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LaborVictoriaAugeanBig BuildCentre for Public IntegrityCoalitionGreensIBAC

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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 -0.24 (leans left).

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2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Royal commission hints at original sin of Big Build

4 outlets covered this event · leans left

2026-09-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog finally has teeth. These are its new powers

2 outlets covered this event · leans left

2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Call that pork-barrelling? Hold my beer, says Jess Wilson

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-23 · Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News

Royal commission hints at original sin of Big Build

🔮 Just as importantly, Commissioner Chris Kourakis has signalled his willingness to stand back and interrogate some bigger, long-overdue questions about how we got here. assertive

2026-09-24 · Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News

Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog finally has teeth. These are its new powers

🔮 Victoria will finally have an anti-corruption watchdog with the authority and powers it needs to do its job after the parliament on its last sitting day before the state election agreed to the most substantial changes to IBAC since its inception. assertive

2026-10-01 · Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News

Call that pork-barrelling? Hold my beer, says Jess Wilson

🔮 Had they done so, Guy would have probably been less scornful in his appraisal of the need for a new train station at Keilor East when he was questioned about it, by this reporter, shortly after Labor’s announcement. assertive

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