Science / Perth, WA

Removing beached whale carcasses no task

ABC News Cason Ho

30 Sept 2026 07:24 AEST Summary

Animals

Changed after publishing · 1 edit

30 Sept 2026 08:02 AEST the headline was changed: ~~How to get rid of a costly~~ Removing beached whale ~~of a problem~~carcasses no easy task

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From the report

When a dead 13-metre-long whale, weighing an estimated 31 tonnes, washed ashore at City Beach in the early hours of Monday morning, a public holiday no less.

How outlets headlined it

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

7NEWS Whale carcass forces City Beach closure as sharks circle plain
WAtoday WA news LIVE: Whale carcass to be removed from south City Beach today plain
ABC News Removing beached whale carcasses no ~~easy~~ task 1 change

Headline check

Headline as published: Removing beached whale carcasses no easy task

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How it is written

Niral Score 15.6 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

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

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Sentiment -0.3 hostilefavourable Sourcing 56 unattributednamed sources Mood 11.4 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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Also covered by WAtoday, The Age, Brisbane Times, 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	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
ABC Newsas they published this story	15.6	17	56	-0.3	11.4
7NEWS	10.8	4	58	-0.1	36.2

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The same event elsewhere

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7NEWS Whale carcass forces City Beach closure as sharks circle Niral 10.8 · mostly calm political 0 WAtoday WA news LIVE: Whale carcass to be removed from south City Beach today Niral 3.1 · calm political 0 The Age WA news LIVE: Whale carcass to be removed from south City Beach today Niral 3.1 · calm political 0 Brisbane Times WA news LIVE: Whale carcass to be removed from south City Beach today Niral 3.1 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald WA news LIVE: Whale carcass to be removed from south City Beach today Niral 3.1 · calm political 0