👤 Adele Ferguson

1 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
1
2026-10-26 – 2026-10-26
Claims per article
104
104 extracted in total
Hedged claims
4%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
14,265
characters
Writes for ABC News (AU).
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

Education
100%
Most-tagged topics
Four CornersGladesvilleLittle Zak'sLittle Zak's AcademySydney

Leaning

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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 -0.25 (leans left).

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2026-10-26 · ABC News (AU) · Education
Childcare is undergoing a 'reckoning' but safety gaps remain
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-10-26 · ABC News (AU)
Childcare is undergoing a 'reckoning' but safety gaps remain
🔮 After months of mounting concerns, Spark pulled her son out and used her skills as an auditor to dig into the centre and the chain behind it. "If I just looked up who owns the centre, done a little bit of digging, realised the number of enforcement actions, realised the level of profits being generated, I wouldn't have sent him there, but I just didn't know," she said. Little Zak's is one of the country's fastest growing childcare chains, generating $142 million in revenue and $17 million in profit in 2025. The family-owned business also has the highest proportion of centres subject to enforcement action among the country's 26 largest long daycare operators. assertive
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