Is illawarramercury.com.au biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places illawarramercury.com.au as leaning left. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is illawarramercury.com.au biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places illawarramercury.com.au as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is illawarramercury.com.au left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places illawarramercury.com.au as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is illawarramercury.com.au reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for illawarramercury.com.au are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckleanLeftCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for illawarramercury.com.au.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
- Official site
- illawarramercury.com.au
- Seen publishing on
- illawarramercury.com.au
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 3
- Reports listed
- 3
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
3 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 2 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and illawarramercury.com.au ran the story anyway.
Across the 3 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of illawarramercury.com.au: its report arrived a median of 23 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 6 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 August 2026. Ratings pulled 6 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- illawarramercury.com.auLeans leftHigh factualityStatus of US-Iran talks uncertain as ship hit in Hormuz (opens illawarramercury.com.au in a new tab)
Our report: Ship attacked in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO reports
- illawarramercury.com.auLeans leftHigh factualityStatus of US-Iran talks uncertain as ship hit in Hormuz (opens illawarramercury.com.au in a new tab)
Our report: Trump cancels planned Iran escalation after military warnings
- illawarramercury.com.auLeans leftHigh factualityRussia's Rome embassy blames Ukraine for Moscow bombing (opens illawarramercury.com.au in a new tab)
Our report: Russian embassy in Italy blames Ukraine for Moscow restaurant bombing
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as illawarramercury.com.au, also publishing from Australia, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.