👤 Michael McGowan

19 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
19
2026-09-04 – 2026-11-03
Claims per article
30
562 extracted in total
Hedged claims
6%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,878
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

Politics
79%
Crime & Law
11%
Environment
5%
World
5%
Most-tagged topics
NSWOne NationLaborSydneyMinnsOne Nation’sCoalitionIPC

Leaning

-0.05 average ± 0.30 · -0.35 median · 9 scored articles
Indistinguishable from their outlet, which averages -0.27. On this many articles the difference between the two is inside the margin. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald · World
Boots on the ground as first Australian rescue team arrives in Nepal
24 outlets covered this event
2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law
‘Trail of evidence’: Teens charged over mistaken identity murder of innocent student
4 outlets covered this event
2026-10-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
The stink, the septic system and the $6m question: Inside Albanese’s Marrickville mess
3 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-11-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Did NSW Labor’s safest seat just become a One Nation battleground?
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Premier intervenes over Hunter Valley coal mine expansion after High Court ruling
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Albanese trips over the truth when it suits. If he’s not careful, it could be contagious
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly right

What they said would happen

2026-09-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Boots on the ground as first Australian rescue team arrives in Nepal
🔮 They are part of the federal government’s $11 million humanitarian support package, and will be joined by disaster victim identification officers from the Australian Federal Police on Saturday. assertive
2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald
After Caitlin’s death, her family lost control of her body. This law will change that
🔮 “Without a will, she was unable to have a funeral without his consent,” Thornton’s mother Kylie Bailey said on Tuesday. assertive
2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Racing NSW drops year-long probe into Mark Latham ‘swearing’ allegation
🔮 The racing regulator now faces the potential of a finding that it acted in contempt of parliament, after the chair of the committee, Labor MP Stephen Lawrence, said the investigation into Latham could have “a tendency to substantially interfere in a member of parliament doing their job”. mixed
2026-09-27 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Loitering in the shallows’: Winter shark surveillance led to hundreds of beach evacuations
🔮 Those attacks led the government to announce it would roll out year-long drone surveillance, as well as a trial of artificial intelligence to identify sharks. assertive
2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Everyone’s missed the most shocking thing about the Greens’ top job vote
🔮 “This result will be seen as a victory for the current MPs and the party’s present establishment and their political strategy,” he wrote, identifying it as “mainstream progressive”. assertive
2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Protest or ‘gathering’? Local council seeks to block anti data-centre group from meeting in park
🔮 A group campaigning against developer Stockland’s proposed $2.9 billion, 25,400-square-metre data centre at the former Kogarah Golf Club site on the banks of the Cooks River was left bemused after the council wrote to it this week informing them they would not be allowed to hold a protest in a park on Friday evening. assertive
2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Vested interests will love it’: Politicians to have power to approve coal mines under One Nation
🔮 One Nation would scrap independent assessment of major new coal mines and hand decision-making power back to politicians as part of the resurgent right-wing party’s plan to reverse decades of planning reforms designed to limit corruption risk by removing ministerial power over major projects. assertive
2026-10-11 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Crackdown on lobbyists after explosive anti-corruption inquiry
🔮 Third-party lobbyists will be forced to disclose links to local councils for the first time in a significant shake-up of integrity laws after the explosive Operation Rosny anti-corruption inquiry uncovered links between a slew of senior Liberal Party operatives and fugitive property developer Jean Nassif. assertive
2026-10-11 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Fantasy land’: NSW Treasurer lays down gauntlet over One Nation promises
🔮 The Minns government will pressure One Nation to submit its policies for formal costings ahead of the March election by changing the law to allow the NSW independent Parliamentary Budget Office to run the ruler over the resurgent right-wing party’s promises. assertive
2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘We’ve got our own people’: One Nation won’t submit policies for budget costing
🔮 One Nation will refuse to submit its policies to financial scrutiny before the 2027 election, rejecting Labor’s bid to pressure the populist party into having its promises costed by the state’s independent budget office. assertive
2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald
The long list of former Coalition MPs seeking new home in One Nation’s crowded NSW ticket
🔮 A conga line of Liberal and National Party defectors is vying to run for One Nation at the NSW election next year, belying the populist party’s anti-establishment narrative and potentially undermining leader Mike Newman’s claim that candidates will come from outside the political class. assertive
2026-10-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Revealed: One Nation leader’s seven-month Sydney hotel stay that cost taxpayers $20,000
🔮 The spending, on top of the roughly $450,000 annual salary as a NSW senior trade and investment commissioner in Japan, will probably open Newman up to accusations of hypocrisy after his criticisms of NSW public service spending since his surprise appointment in September. assertive
2026-10-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Premier intervenes over Hunter Valley coal mine expansion after High Court ruling
🔮 The Minns government will intervene to give a Hunter Valley coal mine a licence to dig up millions of tonnes more each year despite a seismic High Court ruling that found its approval was invalid because it had failed to reckon with emissions from Australian coal burnt overseas. assertive
2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald
One Nation NSW leader hit with ‘please explain’ for charging taxpayers for 71 beers, 23 bottles of wine
🔮 But the documents show the bill was larger – $7790.50 – and reveal public servants said they were only told that alcohol would be served at the event. assertive
2026-10-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald
He had Howard’s photo on his van. Now the ex-Liberal MP wants a spot on One Nation’s NSW ticket
🔮 Smith, the former Wollondilly MP who lost his seat to independent Judy Hannan at the last election, will host an “exclusive private lunch” fundraiser with Mike Newman, the populist party’s leader, next month. assertive
2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Albanese trips over the truth when it suits. If he’s not careful, it could be contagious
🔮 When Premier Chris Minns stood up over the weekend and announced the government would reverse ferret on a planned overhaul of train timetables, he sounded like someone who had listened. assertive
2026-10-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald
The stink, the septic system and the $6m question: Inside Albanese’s Marrickville mess
🔮 Sources close to the golf club familiar with the negotiations, speaking on the condition of anonymity so they could talk freely, told this masthead the club first went to the prime minister’s office seeking help after a redistribution moved it from the electorate of Barton to his seat of Grayndler before the last election. assertive
2026-11-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Did NSW Labor’s safest seat just become a One Nation battleground?
🔮 Veteran Liberal MP Mark Coure announced he would not recontest the key marginal seat of Oatley, joining fellow frontbenchers James Griffin and Alister Henskens in leaving parliament at the next election. assertive
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