Politics / Victoria

‘The most fundamentally decent of people’: Transparency campaigner and Greens MP Tim Read dies aged 64

19 Sept 2026 17:59 AEST Summary

From the report

Dr Tim Read was a campaigner on issues such as climate change, over-incarceration, deaths in custody of Indigenous Victorians and bike safety.

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australian parliament house, used to illustrate it. Fire and coals of a smoking ceremony at Australian Parliament House Samuel Phelps / DFAT / wikimedia, CC BY

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australian parliament house, used to illustrate it. Fire and coals of a smoking ceremony at Australian Parliament House Samuel Phelps / DFAT / wikimedia, 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 4.1 mundaneloaded

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

campaigner2

Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 28.8 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

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

Measured on The Sydney Morning Herald’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.

The Sydney Morning Herald ‘The most fundamentally decent of people’: Transparency campaigner and Greens MP Tim Read dies aged 64 plain
ABC News Victorian Greens MP Tim Read dies aged 64 plain
The West Australian Victorian Greens MP succumbs to cancer battle plain
The West Australian Victorian Greens MP Tim Read dies after cancer battle plain

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by WAtoday, Brisbane Times, The Age, 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
The Sydney Morning Heraldas they published this story	4.1	0	42	-0.1	28.8
ABC News	6.4	4	62	-0.1	47.5

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The same event elsewhere

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

ABC News Victorian Greens MP Tim Read dies aged 64 Niral 6.4 political 0 WAtoday ‘The most fundamentally decent of people’: Transparency campaigner and Greens MP Tim Read dies aged 64 Niral 4.1 political 0 Brisbane Times ‘The most fundamentally decent of people’: Transparency campaigner and Greens MP Tim Read dies aged 64 Niral 4.1 political 0 The Age ‘The most fundamentally decent of people’: Transparency campaigner and Greens MP Tim Read dies aged 64 Niral 4.1 political 0 The West Australian Victorian Greens MP succumbs to cancer battle Niral 4.3 political 0 The West Australian Victorian Greens MP Tim Read dies after cancer battle Niral 2 political 0