Courts / New South Wales

Foul play suspected after two bodies found on same property two weeks apart

ABC News Cath Adams and Jacinta Counihan

29 Sept 2026 18:52 AEST Summary

Crime

From the report

The bodies of a 79-year-old man and 59-year-old man have been found at a property near Grafton two weeks apart.

How outlets headlined it

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

ABC News Foul play suspected after two bodies found on same property two weeks apart plain
7NEWS Man arrested after two bodies found at same property 15 days apart in Gurranang, northern NSW plain
The Age Man arrested over pair of mysterious deaths in NSW plain

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How it is written

Niral Score 6.9 · calm mundaneloaded

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

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Sentiment -0.2 hostilefavourable Sourcing 79 unattributednamed sources Mood 22.3 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

How the article is written, not whether it is correct. How each is measured.

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

How each outlet filed it

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

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
ABC Newsas they published this story	6.9	3	79	-0.2	22.3
7NEWS	9.7	3	58	-0.8	35.3

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The same event elsewhere

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7NEWS Man arrested after two bodies found at same property 15 days apart in Gurranang, northern NSW Niral 9.7 · calm political 0 The Age Man arrested over pair of mysterious deaths in NSW Niral 12.6 · mostly calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Man arrested over pair of mysterious deaths in NSW Niral 12.6 · mostly calm political 0 WAtoday Man arrested over pair of mysterious deaths in NSW Niral 12.6 · mostly calm political 0 Brisbane Times Man arrested over pair of mysterious deaths in NSW Niral 12.6 · mostly calm political 0