New South Wales

Shark warning for NSW river after whale carcass removed

ABC News Nakita Jager

4 Oct 2026 16:19 AEDT Summary

Marine Biology

From the report

A marine biologist says the smell of a whale carcass recently removed from the Clarence River will attract sharks.

How outlets headlined it

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

ABC News Shark warning for NSW river after whale carcass removed plain
The West Australian Whale of a job over, rotting carcass removed from beach plain
ABC News Dead whale ~~finally~~ being removed from Perth beach, four days after washing up 1 change
Brisbane Times Whale carcass ~~finally~~ removed from City Beach 1 change
The West Australian City Beach whale: ~~Huge~~ large 18 tonne carcass ~~finally~~ trucked away but ~~massive~~ large sharks continue to stalk coastline 3 changes

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How it is written

Niral Score 4.6 · calm mundaneloaded

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

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river7whale7carcass5biologist4marine4day3long3shark3sharks3smell3deceased2mother2people2perhaps2removed2sandbar2sea2taken2warning2water2week2

Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 80 unattributednamed sources Mood 42.4 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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How each outlet filed it

Also covered by Brisbane Times, The Age, WAtoday, The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian. 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	4.6	1	80	-0.1	42.4
ABC News	8.6	4	58	-0.5	30

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The same event elsewhere

7 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

ABC News Dead whale being removed from Perth beach, four days after washing up Niral 8.6 · calm political 0 Brisbane Times Whale carcass removed from City Beach Niral 13.9 · mostly calm political 0 The Age Whale carcass removed from City Beach Niral 13.9 · mostly calm political 0 WAtoday Whale carcass removed from City Beach Niral 13.9 · mostly calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Whale carcass removed from City Beach Niral 13.9 · mostly calm political 0 The West Australian City Beach whale: large 18 tonne carcass trucked away but large sharks continue to stalk coastline Niral 29.1 · loaded political 0 The West Australian Whale of a job over, rotting carcass removed from beach Niral 22.1 · mostly calm political 0