Western Australia

Sharks circle as whale carcass washes up on City Beach

Brisbane Times Hamish Hastie

28 Sept 2026 13:02 AEST Summary

From the report

The carcass was reported by Surf Life Saving WA about 7.30am and authorities have received reports of white pointers swimming off the coast.

Laguna Beach, California, 1939 Orange County Archives / flickr, CC BY

Laguna Beach, California, 1939 Orange County Archives / 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 2 mundaneloaded

None in this text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

carcass2

Sourcing 71 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 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

Measurements of how this article is written, not of whether it is correct. How each one is measured.

Measured on Brisbane Times’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How outlets headlined it

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

Brisbane Times Sharks circle as whale carcass washes up on City Beach plain
The West Australian Shark warning issued after whale carcass reported at City Beach with the public told to stay away plain
ABC News Sharks circle off Perth beach after whale carcass washes up on shore plain

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by The West Australian, WAtoday, The Age, 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
Brisbane Timesas they published this story	2	0	71	0	50
ABC News	11.5	4	56	-0.7	30.2

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The same event elsewhere

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The West Australian Shark warning issued after whale carcass reported at City Beach with the public told to stay away Niral 4.6 political 0 ABC News Sharks circle off Perth beach after whale carcass washes up on shore Niral 11.5 political 0 WAtoday Sharks circle as whale carcass washes up on City Beach Niral 2 political 0 The Age Sharks circle as whale carcass washes up on City Beach Niral 2 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Sharks circle as whale carcass washes up on City Beach Niral 2 political 0