nine.com.au media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give nine.com.au one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 5 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is nine.com.au biased?
The rating organisations do not give nine.com.au one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is nine.com.au left or right?
The rating organisations do not give nine.com.au one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is nine.com.au reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for nine.com.au are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What nine.com.au has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with nine.com.au’s own report linked underneath.
On 19 October 2026, US President Donald Trump said it might be time for President Zelensky to hand over peace talks, claimed earlier peace was possible if Zelensky had followed his advice, defended lifting sanctions on Russia and criticised Kyiv’s attacks on Moscow’s energy sites, noting the US continues to share intelligence with Ukraine.
nine.com.au reported it asTrump claims Zelenskyy does not want to end war with Russia. (opens nine.com.au in a new tab)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated in an interview with Bloomberg that steps have been taken to persuade Ukraine to surrender to Russia. He believes relations with the US may calm after the upcoming elections and indicated potential meetings with Trump envoys.
nine.com.au reported it asTrump claims Zelenskyy does not want to end war with Russia. (opens nine.com.au in a new tab)
An international study projects that annual new dementia diagnoses will more than double by 2050, reaching an estimated 24.7 million cases. The research also found that women and individuals in low- and middle-income countries are disproportionately affected.
nine.com.au reported it asCases of Australia’s biggest killer are about to surge (opens nine.com.au in a new tab)
The Anak Krakatau volcano erupted on September 4-5, 2026, with an ash column observed by satellite. Loud booms were heard up to 150km away, and Indonesian authorities placed the volcano under Alert Level III, prohibiting access within a 3km radius.
nine.com.au reported it asFlight chaos as Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau erupts, sending plumes of volcanic into sky (opens nine.com.au in a new tab)
Eight Indonesian airports, including Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Perdanakusuma, were closed on 7 September due to ash from the Mount Anak Krakatau eruption. The transport ministry reported 170,000 people were affected by flight cancellations.
nine.com.au reported it asFlight chaos as Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau erupts, sending plumes of volcanic into sky (opens nine.com.au in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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
Who owns it
- Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings LimitedMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Official site
- nine.com.au
- Seen publishing on
- nine.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
- 5
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 6 September 2026
5 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.
We have not seen nine.com.au cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
Across the 5 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than nine.com.au’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 33 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 21 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 21 October 2026. Ratings pulled 7 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as nine.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.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where nine.com.au publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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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.