👤 Peter de Kruijff

5 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
5
2026-09-17 – 2026-11-02
Claims per article
35
173 extracted in total
Hedged claims
14%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,373
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

Environment
40%
Science
40%
Politics
20%
Most-tagged topics
AustraliaAfricanAratasaurusAsianBiological ConservationBrazilianChinaCurtin University

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 -0.25 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-11-02 · ABC News (AU) · Science
Molecular traces from 'blood cells' found in 115-million-year-old dinosaur bones
4 outlets covered this event
2026-10-07 · ABC News (AU) · Science
Fossil of 'platypus-like' animal from dinosaur era unearthed in China
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-02 · ABC News (AU) · Politics
Ivory still legal to sell in Australia despite 2019 promise to ban it
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-09-24 · ABC News (AU) · Environment
Scientists probe connection between deadly frog disease and coal wastewater
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-17 · ABC News (AU) · Environment
These tiny crocodiles may be at risk, but they can't be listed as 'threatened'
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-17 · ABC News (AU)
These tiny crocodiles may be at risk, but they can't be listed as 'threatened'
🔮 Some scientists say this "unique ecological form" of crocodile may still need targeted conservation. mixed
2026-09-24 · ABC News (AU)
Scientists probe connection between deadly frog disease and coal wastewater
🔮 Lead author Shannon Kaiser, an ecotoxicologist from Macquarie University, said the wastewater from the mine could not definitively be identified as the cause of the observed disease pattern. mixed
2026-10-02 · ABC News (AU)
Ivory still legal to sell in Australia despite 2019 promise to ban it
🔮 "In the absence of enforceable laws requiring vendors to verify or disclose an item's composition, origin, or legality, ambiguity becomes the standard practice rather than the exception." The study suggested there was a lack of political will at state or federal levels of government to address legal loopholes where certification is required to import ivory but not to sell items within Australia. assertive
2026-10-07 · ABC News (AU)
Fossil of 'platypus-like' animal from dinosaur era unearthed in China
🔮 " Further study of the internal microstructure of Megacauda's limb bones may provide further information about how it lived, according to Professor Hand. assertive
2026-11-02 · ABC News (AU)
Molecular traces from 'blood cells' found in 115-million-year-old dinosaur bones
🔮 In short: Limb bones of a Brazilian dinosaur, Aratasaurus museunacionali, may contain mineralised red blood cells. assertive
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