👤 Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent

9 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
9
2026-09-18 – 2026-11-04
Claims per article
22
194 extracted in total
Hedged claims
9%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,334
characters
Writes for The Guardian.
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
78%
Crime & Law
22%
Most-tagged topics
VictoriaVictorianLaborOne NationLiberalAustralianHampton ParkOne Nation’s

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
3 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 -0.29 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-11-04 · The Guardian · Crime & Law
Alleged attack on One Nation supporter not believed to be politically motivated, Victoria police say
5 outlets covered this event
2026-11-03 · The Guardian · Crime & Law
Man and boy arrested after One Nation volunteer allegedly attacked with baseball bat in Victoria
5 outlets covered this event
2026-10-20 · The Guardian · Politics
‘I forgot to pay’: Victoria’s premier Ben Carroll drives off without paying for petrol, sparking police inquiries
4 outlets covered this event
2026-09-23 · The Guardian · Politics
Bikies, ‘moral compass malfunctions’ and corruption cost: Victoria’s Big Build royal commission holds first public hearing
4 outlets covered this event
2026-09-21 · The Guardian · Politics
Datacentres in Victoria to be banned in residential areas
2 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-16 · The Guardian · Politics
One Nation proposes $2,000 baby subsidy in Victoria but says it won’t touch state abortion laws
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-18 · The Guardian
Alleged underworld supporters and unfounded health claims: One Nation rolls out more Victorian election candidates
🔮 Pauline Hanson announced who would be her party’s upper house candidates and Victorian leader, Warren Pickering, at a press conference last month. assertive
2026-09-19 · The Guardian
Victorian Labor promises new offences to close domestic and family violence ‘loopholes’
🔮 A re-elected Victorian Labor government will create two new Australian-first offences aimed at closing “loopholes” it says have allowed perpetrators of family violence to escape punishment. assertive
2026-09-21 · The Guardian
Datacentres in Victoria to be banned in residential areas
🔮 Datacentres in Victoria will be banned in residential areas and required to use renewable energy and contribute to the community, under new state government rules. assertive
2026-09-23 · The Guardian
Bikies, ‘moral compass malfunctions’ and corruption cost: Victoria’s Big Build royal commission holds first public hearing
🔮 The first briefing, which Allan did not sign, warned that the industrial relations environment on MTIA projects had become “highly challenging,” with an increase in “concerning behaviour” that could “significantly impact project costs and schedule”. assertive
2026-10-07 · The Guardian
Comedian Dave Hughes to stop speaking at Liberal party events over political donation concerns
🔮 Dave Hughes says he will no longer be taking the stage at Victorian Liberal events, claiming the party decided having him on the bill could run afoul of the state’s political donation laws. assertive
2026-10-16 · The Guardian
One Nation proposes $2,000 baby subsidy in Victoria but says it won’t touch state abortion laws
🔮 She said it would cost $136m over four years but admitted it was a “ballpark” figure that would depend on how many babies were born each year. “We don’t go hard on figures, because we actually don’t have access to the detail of this stuff,” Harkin told reporters. assertive
2026-10-20 · The Guardian
‘I forgot to pay’: Victoria’s premier Ben Carroll drives off without paying for petrol, sparking police inquiries
🔮 No further action is expected to be taken. assertive
2026-11-03 · The Guardian
Man and boy arrested after One Nation volunteer allegedly attacked with baseball bat in Victoria
🔮 One Nation’s federal leader, Pauline Hanson, and Victorian deputy leader, Colleen Harkin, were expected to visit the man in hospital on Tuesday morning. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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