👤 Nick O'Malley

14 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
14
2026-09-18 – 2026-10-28
Claims per article
40
553 extracted in total
Hedged claims
6%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,994
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

Environment
79%
Politics
21%
Most-tagged topics
AustraliaNSWTuvaluAlbaneseFijiAdelaideAustralianSouth Australia

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 -0.27 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
What Lula’s win in Brazil means for the Amazon and the warming world
23 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Environment
Exporting coal, owning the damage: a legal reckoning arrives for Australian mining
5 outlets covered this event
2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Environment
Why Albanese will pay a domestic price for his Pacific diplomacy
5 outlets covered this event
2026-10-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Environment
Pacific leaders demand an end to fossil fuel addiction
5 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Environment
Only two leaders from outside the Pacific attending crucial pre-COP meeting in Fiji
5 outlets covered this event
2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Environment
After a catastrophic decline bogong moths are back, and naturalists are celebrating
4 outlets covered this event

What they said would happen

2026-09-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald
How this team of experts guide 80-metre turbine blades down our roads with just millimetres to spare
🔮 Peering up at its midsection, you could be looking at a warship’s prow from the ocean’s surface. assertive
2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Why Iceland’s last whaler says the industry should not be banned
🔮 This weekend, the International Whaling Commission will hold its biannual meeting in Hobart, while in Iceland there are political moves afoot to finally shut down Loftsson’s whaling operation, Hvalur. assertive
2026-09-27 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Two billionaires, one online bet and an Australian energy revolution
🔮 For some the power was back up within 8 hours, but for others it would take days. assertive
2026-09-27 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Two billionaires, one online bet and a turning point for Australian energy
🔮 For some, the power was back up within eight hours but for others, it would take days. assertive
2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald
After a catastrophic decline bogong moths are back, and naturalists are celebrating
🔮 “They went from being so numerous that they could block out the moon and the stars as they flew overhead to nearly undetectable,” says Parrott. assertive
2026-09-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Largest coal mining proposal in state’s history wins approval
🔮 The NSW government’s independent planning body has approved the largest coal mining proposal in the state’s history, saying that, while the 800 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions it will cause will have impacts on the Hunter Valley, they can be managed with the conditions it has applied. assertive
2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Only two leaders from outside the Pacific attending crucial pre-COP meeting in Fiji
🔮 On Tuesday, delegations will visit Tuvalu, one of the nations that faces the most immediate existential threat from climate change, a visit that Fiji’s climate minister, Lynda Tabuya, said would be crucial in bringing the threat of climate change into sharp focus. assertive
2026-10-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Pacific leaders demand an end to fossil fuel addiction
🔮 Bowen, who with host nation Turkey will serve as co-chair of the UN’s annual climate talks next month, has shifted his emphasis from the importance of a fossil fuel phase-out, which was a key to COP talks in Dubai in 2023, to the need to ramp up renewables and electrification. assertive
2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Why Albanese will pay a domestic price for his Pacific diplomacy
🔮 Whatever the success or failure of the pre-COP meeting in Fiji, it is clear the Albanese government will wear a political cost for putting it on. assertive
2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Exporting coal, owning the damage: a legal reckoning arrives for Australian mining
🔮 Of course, governments can legislate to change their planning laws and regulations to protect the industry, but over time this will come at increasing political cost. assertive
2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Calling climate talks a dud misses the point, but the gains are in jeopardy
🔮 Bowen secured the talks in negotiations when it became clear Turkey would succeed over Australia in its bid to host United Nations climate talks in November. assertive
2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald
NSW government backflips on brand-new coffee cup law
🔮 Cafes will be able to continue serving customers who choose to sit down to drink hot drinks in recyclable disposable cups in a change to a new law introduced to reduce plastic waste passed last week. assertive
2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Urgent biosecurity review after site of fire ant nest only required checking every three years
🔮 A nationwide review of biosecurity measures will target the imported red fire ant incursion in Sydney’s inner west after revelations the location of the nest was only required to be checked every three years. assertive
2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald
What Lula’s win in Brazil means for the Amazon and the warming world
🔮 Under Bolsonaro’s rule, clearing and burning for agriculture, beef production and mining had reached record highs, pushing it towards the point at which it may start to emit more carbon than it absorbs. assertive
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