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The Guardian · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 2630 words · By Krishani Dhanji; Achol Arok; Luca Ittimani; Ima Caldwell; Patrick Commins; Sarah Basford Canales; Benita Kolovos; Cait Kelly; Josh Butler; Sarah Martin
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Liberal senator Paul Scarr joined his colleagues Pat Conaghan and Andrew Wallace to cross the floor of the Senate to vote against Labor’s gambling bill.

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Techniques found 2
Topics 3

Coverage spectrum

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What happened

Liberal senator Paul Scarr joined his colleagues Pat Conaghan and Andrew Wallace to cross the floor of the Senate to vote against Labor’s gambling bill.

Why it matters

The news bargaining incentive passed the lower house, after the government made an amendment this morning to increase the levy on tech companies if they don’t sign the mandatory number of deals with publishers.

Common ground

Marcia Langton tells antisemitism royal commission racism needs to be tackled in ‘coordinated way’ Earlier, the royal commission heard evidence from First Nations advocate and senior academic Marcia Langton about racism that she had experienced in her…

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/aug/19/australia-politcs-li…

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eFinder identified 2 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 80% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing loaded language helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.
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Name Calling / Labeling 70% confidence
Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing name calling / labeling helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 22 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Australians with self-managed super funds could also have to start paying levies to fund the scheme.”
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Claim 2: “the PBO finds that Australia’s “long-term fiscal outlook is sustainable”.”
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Claim 3: “Liberal senator Paul Scarr joined his colleagues Pat Conaghan and Andrew Wallace to cross the floor of the Senate to vote against Labor’s gambling bill.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Pat Conaghan and Andrew Wallace crossed the floor to vote against the gambling reforms, and that Paul Scarr also intended to/did cross the floor.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 48th Parliament of Australia is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the Commonwealth of Australia, composed of the Australian Senate and the Australian House of Representatives. The 4…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/48th_Parliament_of_Australia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The shadow ministry of Sussan Ley was the shadow ministry from 2025 to 2026, in opposition to the Albanese government. The shadow ministry was the Opposition's alternative to the Albanese ministry, wh…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The shadow ministry of Angus Taylor is the shadow ministry from February 2026, in opposition to the Albanese government. The shadow ministry is the Opposition's alternative to the Albanese ministry. T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_shadow_ministry
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Claim 4: “No arrests or charges have been laid in connection with the allegation.”
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Claim 5: “The NSW government has extended financial support to Blue Mountains families facing lengthy school commutes, backdating school drive subsidies to the start of the Victoria Pass closure in March.”
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Claim 6: “Australian defence force personnel have joined the search for 18-year-old Lily Hooper, who has been missing in Nattai national park in the southern highlands for a week.”
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Claim 7: “Langton told the hearing she was arrested by NT police who were unhappy with her work, alleging police were behind an incident where the door of her Darwin hotel room was kicked in during the night.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia entries about CDU and Marcia Langton, but does not contain the specific testimony regarding the hotel room door or the arrest. The claim is not corroborated by the provided evidence snippets.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charles Darwin University (CDU) is an Australian public university with two campuses in Darwin and six satellite campuses in metropolitan and regional areas of the Northern Territory. It was establish…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Marcia Lynne Langton (born 31 October 1951) is an Aboriginal Australian writer and academic. As of 2022 she is the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the Melbourne School of Population and Globa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Langton
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Northern Territory National Emergency Response, also known as "The Intervention" or the Northern Territory Intervention, and sometimes the abbreviation "NTER" (for Northern Territory Emergency Res…
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Claim 8: “only permanent residents, not temporary visa holders, are eligible for the scheme”
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Claim 9: “The news bargaining incentive passed the lower house, after the government made an amendment this morning to increase the levy on tech companies if they don’t sign the mandatory number of deals with publishers.”
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Multiple sources confirm the News Bargaining Incentive passed and involves a levy (2.5%) on tech companies that fail to reach commercial deals with publishers.
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web search NEUTRAL — The News Bargaining Incentive, passed last month, whacked a 2.5 per cent levy on advertising revenue generated by those companies. Netflix faces a $1 billion fine if it fails to comply with local cont…
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-taxman-v-trump…
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web search NEUTRAL — The government has finally tabled its News Bargaining Incentive legislation to make big tech companies pay for the Australian journalism they use on their platforms.
https://theconversation.com/new-laws-to-make-tech-companies-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The News Bargaining Incentive legislation has pass federal parliament, forcing tech giants to pay a levy of 2.5% of local advertising revenue, should they fail to enter into commercial deals with Aust…
https://www.adnews.com.au/news/news-bargaining-incentive-pas…
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Claim 10: “Her car was found near the Bonnum Pic walking trail in the national park at about 11pm that night.”
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Claim 11: “Segregation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people was normal during Langton’s childhood in south-west Queensland.”
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Web search results explicitly state that 'Segregation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people was normal during Prof Langton's childhood in south-west Queensland.'
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The second question of the 1967 Australian referendum of 27 May 1967, called by the Holt government, related to Indigenous Australians. Voters were asked whether to give the Commonwealth Parliament th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events which occurred in the year 2023 in Australia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Antisemitism in Australia has affected Jews since Australia's Jewish community was established in the 18th century. It became more pronounced in the late 19th century, rising further in the 20th and e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Australia
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Claim 12: “She was expelled from a Brisbane high school after objecting to her teacher reciting a “very racist” poem to the class.”
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While evidence confirms Marcia Langton's birth in Brisbane and her attendance at multiple schools, none of the provided evidence snippets mention her being expelled for objecting to a racist poem.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Aspley State High School is a secondary school situated in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, in the Australian state of Queensland. As of August 2023 it has a student population of 1,081.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Marcia Lynne Langton (born 31 October 1951) is an Aboriginal Australian writer and academic. As of 2022 she is the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the Melbourne School of Population and Globa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Langton
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Murri is a demonym for Aboriginal Australians of modern-day Queensland and north-western New South Wales. For some people and organisations, the use of Indigenous language regional terms is an express…
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Claim 13: “260,000 people have the keys to their own home today because of this fantastic support that we are offering.”
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Claim 14: “A replacement structure over the collapsing, 194-year-old Mitchells Causeway is predicted to open between April and June 2026, with the state government having already committed $100m from its 2026-27 budget.”
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Claim 15: “The CSLR will now only pay out on consumers’ actual losses, rather than expected losses.”
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Claim 16: “the decision to stand down five Sydney Swans players over a breach of standards linked to an investigation into an allegation of sexual assault.”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that five Sydney Swans players were stood down/suspended following an investigation into an allegation of sexual assault.
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web search NEUTRAL — Five Swans players have been stood down for the rest of the AFL season following an allegation of sexual assault at a Melbourne hotel.Photograph: Sean Garnsworthy/Getty Images.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sydney's last premiership coach says there is a deep sense of sadness at five banned Swans players being linked to allegations of sexual assault. John Longmire, the Swans' longest-serving coach, says …
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/afl-john-longmire-rea…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alleged Swans victim speaks to police again after recording found amid trade legal twist.September 8th, 2026 6:06 pm. At least one of the alleged victims in the investigation into sexual assault at a …
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/sydney-swans/afl-news…
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Claim 17: “the combination of our efforts on regulation will cut compliance costs in our economy by more than $10bn a year”
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Claim 18: “The 14 December 2025 Bondi massacre, and the 7 October 2023 Nova music festival attack in Israel by Hamas, had a huge impact on Victoria’s Jewish community”
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Multiple sources confirm the impact of the October 7, 2023 Nova festival attack and the December 14, 2025 Bondi massacre on the Jewish community.
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web search NEUTRAL — The December 14, 2025, Bondi massacre and the October 7, 2023, Nova music festival attack in Israel by Hamas, had a huge impact on Victoria's Jewish community and its relationships with other religiou…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Jewish community has endured a spate of anti-Semitic attacks since the October 2023 massacre in Israel, including last year’s fire-bombing of Melbourne’s Adass Synagogue. Jewish leaders had warned…
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web search NEUTRAL — ‘11 shot in 29 seconds’. Ten of the 15 victims of the Bondi terror attack were killed within the first 30 seconds of the shooting spree, the Royal Commission on anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion was t…
https://au.news.yahoo.com/key-questions-bondi-terror-attack-…
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Claim 19: “The most recent rate is $0.75 per km for travel by car.”
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Claim 20: “The Yiman and Didjara woman and senior academic was a key contributor to the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody from 1989 to 1992”
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Three independent sources (including the National Portrait Gallery and other web results) explicitly state that Marcia Langton was a key contributor to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody from 1989 to 1992.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Governme…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Marcia Lynne Langton (born 31 October 1951) is an Aboriginal Australian writer and academic. As of 2022 she is the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the Melbourne School of Population and Globa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Ricketts (1898–1993) was an Australian potter and sculptor of the arts and crafts movement. Born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1898, William settled permanently in Mount Dandenong, Victoria, in 19…
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Claim 21: “Victoria Pass has been closed since March”
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Claim 22: “Australia’s national net debt has doubled over the past decade to $30,000 per person, and is set to climb by a further 50% by the end of the decade, according to the Parliamentary Budget Office.”
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