Australian rights activist feared missing in Cambodia

29 Sept 2026 05:01 AEST Summary

From the report

An Australian human rights defender who met with Vietnamese activists has been missing in Cambodia for 10 days as his wife pleads for his safe return.

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

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Niral Score 8.2 mundaneloaded

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

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Sentiment +0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 38 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

Measurements of how this article is written, not of whether it is correct. How each one is measured.

Measured on The West Australian’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How outlets headlined it

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The West Australian Australian rights activist feared missing in Cambodia plain
7NEWS Fears grow for Australian human rights activist missing in Cambodia for over a week plain

How each outlet filed it

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
The West Australianas they published this story	8.2	1	42	0.1	38
7NEWS	6.5	3	76	-0.2	42

Also reported by

6 Australian outlets reported this story. These are the ones we do not read; their headlines are matched to this one automatically, so an occasional match may be a different story.

Australian rights activist feared missing in Cambodia armidaleexpress.com.au
Australian rights activist feared missing in Cambodia manningrivertimes.com.au
Australian rights activist feared missing in Cambodia mudgeeguardian.com.au
Australian rights activist feared missing in Cambodia centralwesterndaily.com.au

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7NEWS Fears grow for Australian human rights activist missing in Cambodia for over a week Niral 6.5 political 0