👤 Richard Willingham

10 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
10
2026-09-06 – 2026-10-31
Claims per article
30
302 extracted in total
Hedged claims
7%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,261
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
80%
Crime & Law
10%
Economy/Business
10%
Most-tagged topics
VictorianLaborVictoriaMelbourneABCCoalitionOne Nation774 ABC Melbourne

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
4 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 -0.25 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-21 · ABC News (AU) · Politics
Victorian premier repays bill after forgetting to pay at petrol station
4 outlets covered this event
2026-10-15 · ABC News (AU) · Politics
COVID-19 grants paid to 9,000 ineligible Victorian businesses
3 outlets covered this event
2026-09-21 · ABC News (AU) · Politics
Victoria unveils data centre strategy with renewables requirements
2 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-31 · ABC News (AU) · Politics
Backing a horse in Victoria's election is no simple task
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans right
2026-10-30 · ABC News (AU) · Politics
Liberal plan to scrap Treaty risks 'sending us back', Aboriginal leader warns
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-10-30 · ABC News (AU) · Economy/Business
Cooling property market delivers $5 billion blow to Victorian budget
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-06 · ABC News (AU)
Concerns new west Melbourne housing too close to pokies
🔮 After years of sitting empty, hectares of land once the site of an explosives depot in Melbourne's west will be transformed into 500 homes. assertive
2026-09-21 · ABC News (AU)
Victoria unveils data centre strategy with renewables requirements
🔮 In short: Victoria will require new data centres to source their own renewable energy under a strategy unveiled by Premier Ben Carroll on Tuesday. assertive
2026-10-04 · ABC News (AU)
Three oppositions are contesting Victoria's election. The premier leads one
🔮 Regardless of the fact Queensland senator Pauline Hanson's party had provided limited details of its policies until the weekend, polls suggest they will attract around one in four voters in the state. assertive
2026-10-13 · ABC News (AU)
Liberal candidate for marginal seat dumped weeks out from election
🔮 Toby Wooldridge will now stand as the candidate for Croydon in the November 28 poll. assertive
2026-10-20 · ABC News (AU)
Calls to beef up security for Victorian election in wake of Haines attack
🔮 Premier Ben Carroll is expected to meet with electoral authorities today and says a "live" conversation is underway about security arrangements at voting centres. assertive
2026-10-30 · ABC News (AU)
Cooling property market delivers $5 billion blow to Victorian budget
🔮 In short: Reduced revenue from stamp duty and land taxes is expected to shave more than $1 billion off Victorian budget forecasts over the next four years. mixed
2026-10-30 · ABC News (AU)
Liberal plan to scrap Treaty risks 'sending us back', Aboriginal leader warns
🔮 Victorians will head to the polls to choose the next state government on November 28. assertive
2026-10-31 · ABC News (AU)
Backing a horse in Victoria's election is no simple task
🔮 You could be forgiven for thinking the Victorian Labor government was already in caretaker mode this week, with Premier Ben Carroll licking Macca's soft-serve ice creams and holding mock debates with no opponents. 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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