Courts / Melbourne, VIC

Former Bachelor star Sam Wood arrested over alleged domestic violence incident

7NEWS Michael Hammond

4 Oct 2026 18:28 AEDT Summary

From the report

The 46-year-old had been holidaying in Noosa when the alleged attack took place.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

7NEWS Former Bachelor star Sam Wood arrested over alleged domestic violence incident plain
Brisbane Times Sam Wood charged with domestic violence offences plain

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of police officers street, used to illustrate it. Dartmouth College Safety and Security- Ford Explorer Police Interceptor Utility JLaw45 / flickr, CC BY

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of police officers street, used to illustrate it. Dartmouth College Safety and Security- Ford Explorer Police Interceptor Utility JLaw45 / flickr, CC BY

This is a summary. The indicators are not. Every score on this page was measured over the full 134-word report, which is the only way the numbers mean anything.

How it is written

Niral Score 7.6 · calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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

domestic4alleged3violence3arrested2incident2

Sentiment -0.6 hostilefavourable Sourcing 61 unattributednamed sources Mood 30.9 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

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Measured on 7NEWS’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

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Also covered by The West Australian, Brisbane Times, The Age, WAtoday, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score
7NEWSas they published this story	7.6

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The same event elsewhere

5 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

The West Australian Former Bachelor star Sam Wood arrested over alleged domestic violence incident Niral 1.7 · calm political 0 Brisbane Times Sam Wood charged with domestic violence offences Niral 6.2 · calm political 0 The Age Sam Wood charged with domestic violence offences Niral 6.2 · calm political 0 WAtoday Sam Wood charged with domestic violence offences Niral 6.2 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Sam Wood charged with domestic violence offences Niral 6.2 · calm political 0