👤 David Speers

2 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
2
2026-10-21 – 2026-10-31
Claims per article
38
76 extracted in total
Hedged claims
12%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,738
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

Politics
100%
Most-tagged topics
ABCASIOAlfred HospitalAustralianCompassion in Politics AustraliaLaborLiberalMelbourne

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.
2026-10-31 · ABC News (AU) · Politics
Liberal MP pushes for party to rule out changes to superannuation
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-10-21 · ABC News (AU) · Politics
How do we actually turn down the temperature in political debate?
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-10-21 · ABC News (AU)
How do we actually turn down the temperature in political debate?
🔮 Security will no doubt be improved as much as is practicable, without sacrificing the critical ability of MPs to interact in their communities. assertive
2026-10-31 · ABC News (AU)
Liberal MP pushes for party to rule out changes to superannuation
🔮 At the past two elections under Scott Morrison and then Peter Dutton, the Coalition adopted a policy that would have allowed up to $50,000 to be withdrawn from super to put towards a first home deposit. 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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