Politics / New South Wales

‘I’m up for a red hot fight’: polarising new Greens leader David Shoebridge is taking on the top ‘1%’ – and One Nation

The Guardian Australia Sarah Basford Canales and Krishani Dhanji

1 Oct 2026 01:00 AEST Summary

From the report

Shoebridge leads the party following a 2025 election outcome Adam Bandt, and two up-and-coming lower house MPs losing their seats.

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Niral Score 14.8 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

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

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Sentiment -0.3 hostilefavourable Political diction -0.0 left-codedright-coded Jingoistic 4.5 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Sourcing 79 unattributednamed sources Mood 40.6 sorrowjoyful

3 read zero: generational, gender, religious

Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Religious 0 not invokedovert

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The Guardian Australiaas they published this story	14.8

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