Politics / New South Wales

Greens select David Shoebridge as new leader as former head Larissa Waters steps down

7NEWS Noah Secomb and Lucinda Garbutt-Young

30 Sept 2026 12:24 AEST Summary

From the report

David Shoebridge is the new leader of the Greens after Larissa Waters stepped down due to ill health. Senators Shoebridge and Hodgins-May announced their joint ticket on Wednesday morning.

How outlets headlined it

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

7NEWS Greens select David Shoebridge as new leader as former head Larissa Waters steps down 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.

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How it is written

Niral Score 11.6 · mostly 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.

leadership5former3leader3party3due2health2home2including2vote2

Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 29 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 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.

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	Happiness
7NEWSas they published this story	11.6	9	29	0	-0.1	50
ABC News	11.7	23	39	-0.1	-0.2	55.5
ABC News	5	2	77	0	-0.9	48.8
The Guardian Australia	11.6	12	46	-0.3	-0.5	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