Politics / New South Wales

Greens choose David Shoebridge to lead party after Larissa Waters' resignation

SBS News

30 Sept 2026 12:05 AEST Summary

From the report

The Greens will change direction for the third time in two years under new leader David Shoebridge after the sudden resignation of Larissa Waters on Monday.

How outlets headlined it

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

SBS News Greens choose David Shoebridge to lead party after Larissa Waters' resignation plain
The West Australian 'It's about the team': Greens set to elect new leader plain
ABC News The Greens are about to pick a new leader. Who are the contenders? plain
ABC News Live: Greens senator 'disappointed' by leadership ballot, calls for member vote plain
The Sydney Morning Herald Shoebridge says Greens must ‘replace’ Labor in first speech as leader plain
WAtoday David Shoebridge elected new leader of the Greens plain
The Guardian Australia David Shoebridge says ‘we’re here to replace Labor’ in first remarks after being elected new Greens leader plain

Headline check

All two things this headline claims are in the report.

Figures, names and quoted words in the headline, looked for in the report itself — not in the summary above. How this is checked

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How it is written

Niral Score 15.4 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, political diction and 3 more and 3 at zero

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Sentiment -0.0 hostilefavourable Political diction -0.1 left-codedright-coded Gender 2.3 no gendered framingframing throughout Sourcing 43 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 sorrowjoyful

3 read zero: generational, jingoistic, religious

Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by The West Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, WAtoday, The Age, 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	Political	Sentiment	Gender	Happiness
SBS Newsas they published this story	15.4	8	43	-0.1	-0.0	2.3	50
ABC News	11.7	23	39	-0.1	-0.2	0	55.5
ABC News	5	2	77	0	-0.9	0	48.8
The Guardian Australia	11.6	12	46	-0.3	-0.5	0	50.9

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The same event elsewhere

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

The West Australian 'It's about the team': Greens set to elect new leader Niral 14.1 · mostly calm political 0 ABC News The Greens are about to pick a new leader. Who are the contenders? Niral 11.7 · mostly calm political -0.1 ABC News Live: Greens senator 'disappointed' by leadership ballot, calls for member vote Niral 5 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Shoebridge says Greens must ‘replace’ Labor in first speech as leader Niral 14.6 · mostly calm political 0 WAtoday David Shoebridge elected new leader of the Greens Niral 4.1 · calm political 0 The Age Shoebridge says Greens must ‘replace’ Labor in first speech as leader Niral 14.6 · mostly calm political 0 Brisbane Times David Shoebridge elected new leader of the Greens Niral 4.1 · calm political 0 The Guardian Australia David Shoebridge says ‘we’re here to replace Labor’ in first remarks after being elected new Greens leader Niral 11.6 · mostly calm political -0.3