Mother accused of driving off boat ramp in failed attempt to murder her three children

The Sydney Morning Herald Lachlan Abbott

21 Sept 2026 14:37 AEST Summary

From the report

The woman allegedly searched how to hurt children and sent a message about putting her baby up for adoption.

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australia city skyline, used to illustrate it. Melbourne Ү / flickr, CC BY

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australia city skyline, used to illustrate it. Melbourne Ү / flickr, CC BY

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 8.8 mundaneloaded

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

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Sentiment -0.2 hostilefavourable Sourcing 30 unattributednamed sources Mood 70.2 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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How outlets headlined it

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The Sydney Morning Herald Mother accused of driving off boat ramp in failed attempt to murder her three children plain
The West Australian Drone attack kills three children and a woman in Kyiv plain
The West Australian Melbourne woman accused of attempting to kill three children by driving into creek plain

How this outlet filed it, and how we rewrote it

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

Outlet	Niral Score
The Sydney Morning Heraldas they published this story	8.8

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The same event elsewhere

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The West Australian Drone attack kills three children and a woman in Kyiv Niral 2.1 political 0 The West Australian Melbourne woman accused of attempting to kill three children by driving into creek Niral 3 political 0 Brisbane Times Mother accused of driving off boat ramp in failed attempt to murder her three children Niral 8.7 political 0 The Age Mother accused of driving off boat ramp in failed attempt to murder her three children Niral 8.8 political 0 WAtoday Mother accused of driving off boat ramp in failed attempt to murder her three children Niral 8.8 political 0