Courts / Brisbane, QLD

Police officer stabbed in neck in Brisbane's east, union says

ABC News

27 Sept 2026 10:35 AEST Summary

Crime

Changed after publishing · 1 edit

27 Sept 2026 12:03 AEST the headline was changed: ~~Breaking:~~ Police officer stabbed in neck in Brisbane's east, union says

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From the report

Police say officers were called to a reported disturbance at a property on Bogong Street in Hemmant just after 5am on Sunday.

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 9.9 mundaneloaded

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

No word appears twice.

Sourcing 79 unattributednamed sources Mood 30 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable 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

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

ABC News Police officer stabbed in neck in Brisbane's east, union says plain
The Age Police officer reportedly stabbed in neck east of Brisbane plain
WAtoday ‘An absolute hero’: Police officer gives chase after being stabbed in neck plain

How this outlet filed it, and how we rewrote it

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

Outlet	Niral Score
ABC Newsas they published this story	9.9

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The same event elsewhere

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The Age Police officer reportedly stabbed in neck east of Brisbane Niral 5.8 political 0 WAtoday ‘An absolute hero’: Police officer gives chase after being stabbed in neck Niral 2 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald ‘An absolute hero’: Police officer gives chase after being stabbed in neck Niral 2 political 0 Brisbane Times ‘An absolute hero’: Police officer gives chase after being stabbed in neck Niral 2 political 0