👤 Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent

3 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
3
2026-10-23 – 2026-10-30
Claims per article
27
80 extracted in total
Hedged claims
6%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,777
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
67%
Crime & Law
33%
Most-tagged topics
QueenslandGuardian AustraliaAustralianHainesMelbourneNoosaOlympicsSenate

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 -0.29 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-30 · The Guardian · Crime & Law
Sam Wood makes fresh bail bid over domestic violence charges as court hears of ‘party lifestyle’ and alleged anger issues
4 outlets covered this event
2026-10-23 · The Guardian · Politics
Embattled Queensland minister Amanda Camm quits Crisafulli frontbench citing health and safety reasons
3 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-29 · The Guardian · Politics
We shouldn’t ‘blindly’ believe allegations of violence against women, Queensland’s new DV minister said in resurfaced comments
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-10-23 · The Guardian
Embattled Queensland minister Amanda Camm quits Crisafulli frontbench citing health and safety reasons
🔮 She said she had realised her recovery would be “ongoing” and that she would not be able to continue perform her ministerial duties, given the workload and “the ongoing stresses”. assertive
2026-10-29 · The Guardian
We shouldn’t ‘blindly’ believe allegations of violence against women, Queensland’s new DV minister said in resurfaced comments
🔮 Stoker, who was appointed to the role on Saturday, argued in a 2023 article that the recent push to believe complaints “rather than carefully assess[ing] relevant evidence” would harm innocent defendants. assertive
2026-10-30 · The Guardian
Sam Wood makes fresh bail bid over domestic violence charges as court hears of ‘party lifestyle’ and alleged anger issues
🔮 His legal team have indicated he will fight the charges. 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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