👤 Rachel Rasker

12 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
12
2026-09-06 – 2026-10-13
Claims per article
23
281 extracted in total
Hedged claims
7%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,923
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
58%
Crime & Law
25%
Politics
17%
Most-tagged topics
AustraliaNSWSydneyAustralianAustraliansAFPAmericanAustralasian College of Emergency Medicine

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
6 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 -0.27 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law
Australia news LIVE: Trump rules out fresh strikes; Christa Pike ‘up and walking’; closing statements in murder of Perth brothers in Mexico
9 outlets covered this event
2026-10-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law
Man shot dead by police, critical incident declared
4 outlets covered this event
2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law
Woman dies after being stabbed in Bondi apartment
4 outlets covered this event
2026-10-09 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
No such thing as a free lunch: Doctors ‘heavily influenced’ by pharma freebies, major review finds
2 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
Revealed: The $600 million needed to fix mental health that was buried
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
Emergency doctors warn of ‘terrifying’ crisis Australia is not prepared for
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left

What they said would happen

2026-09-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Part of North Sydney Pool roof blows off just one month after opening
🔮 Residents expressed disappointment at the damage, and questioned how much it would add to the troubled pool’s repair bill. assertive
2026-09-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald
When Lachlan fractured his elbow, he dreaded a hospital trip. This is how he managed to avoid it
🔮 The Sydney researchers behind a world-first study into virtual fracture care say the innovative service could ease pressure on increasingly strained hospitals and revolutionise care for one of Australia’s most common injuries – the broken bone. mixed
2026-09-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia news LIVE: Nvidia boss rejects calls for AI regulation; Labor grows uneasy over interest rate rises, inflation; US reveals deployment of weapons in space
🔮 - Labor MPs are growing uneasy about rate rises and inflation, as Treasurer Jim Chalmers works to prepare backbenchers for a report next week that will lay bare Australia’s long-term economic problems. assertive
2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald
No warning, 12-year-old guidelines and a long shift: The litany of problems before Joe Massa’s death
🔮 “He could barely keep his head up, he was going in and out of consciousness, he was floppy.” assertive
2026-09-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Healthcare workers champion green alternative to multibillion-dollar industry
🔮 Clinicians have accused the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC) of siding with a multibillion-dollar manufacturer of disposable medical devices that would lose money if the sustainable products were widely adopted. assertive
2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Keeps me up at night’: The biggest health issue facing NSW revealed
🔮 Ryan Park told the NSW Great Health Debate that the government had initially hoped vaping would help smokers quit, but was now concerned it would lead to another generation becoming addicted. “Governments, public health officials, researchers did so much in the last century to curb our tobacco rates and smoking rates, and I don’t want to be the minister that sees that Pandora’s box completely open again,” he said at the Thursday evening event hosted by the Public Health Association of Australia and the University of Sydney. assertive
2026-10-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Man shot dead by police, critical incident declared
🔮 A crime scene has been established and a critical incident team from the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad will investigate the circumstances surrounding this incident. assertive
2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia news LIVE: Trump rules out fresh strikes; Christa Pike ‘up and walking’; closing statements in murder of Perth brothers in Mexico
🔮 - A Mexican judge is expected to hera closing statements before he hands down his verdict in the trial of three men accused of killing two Australians and their American friend in 2024. assertive
2026-10-09 · The Sydney Morning Herald
No such thing as a free lunch: Doctors ‘heavily influenced’ by pharma freebies, major review finds
🔮 Most of the studies included in the review were US-based because of the availability of vast amounts of detailed data, with pharmaceutical companies publicly reporting all payments to prescribers that could be compared with individual doctors’ prescribing data. assertive
2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Emergency doctors warn of ‘terrifying’ crisis Australia is not prepared for
🔮 Emergency departments will brace for a 411 per cent increase in patients aged 85 and over by 2050, the latest Australasian College of Emergency Medicine’s State of Emergency 2026 report revealed. assertive
2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Revealed: The $600 million needed to fix mental health that was buried
🔮 About $600 million a year would be needed to fix the state’s shortfall of frontline public mental health staff, a confidential ministerial briefing note says, a figure NSW Health warned could cause reputational damage to the Minns government if revealed. assertive
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