QNews media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places QNews as leaning left. We have seen it on 5 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is QNews biased?
Ad Fontes Media places QNews as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is QNews left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places QNews as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is QNews reliable?
The factuality data this site ingests describes QNews as high factuality. It reaches us without a named assessor, so it is an unattributed rating rather than our verdict. It does not guarantee that every report is correct.
What QNews has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with QNews’s own report linked underneath.
Magda Szubanski has spoken about her battle with Mantle Cell Lymphoma, stating her cancer is an "incurable relapse" and likely to return. She announced she was in remission in February 2026, but discussed the prognosis and her treatment in a 60 Minutes interview.
QNews reported it as'Incurable': Magda Szubanski opens up about cancer status (opens QNews in a new tab)
NSW Police conducted a drug raid on Sydney's Oxford Street, searching 65 people and making 28 drug detections without any arrests. The operation has drawn criticism from the LGBTQ+ community and civil liberties advocates, who question the police tactics and timing.
QNews reported it as'It's not safe to go out': NSW Police have raided Oxford Street (again) (opens QNews in a new tab)
Police in Tucson, Arizona, are investigating a shooting outside a gay bar as a possible hate crime. Three people, including the shooter, died in the incident. The suspect was found with a note listing LGBTQIA+-associated businesses.
QNews reported it asTwo men killed outside Arizona gay bar in suspected hate crime (opens QNews in a new tab)
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
QNews reported it asActress Hayden Panettiere has died at age 36 (opens QNews in a new tab)
One Nation removed former WA candidate Parminder Singh from its website after he claimed in a video that gay people have a mental illness. Federal MP Barnaby Joyce called the party 'one of the gayest in Australia' while distancing it from Singh’s remarks. LGBTQIA+ groups condemned the comments as harmful and baseless.
QNews reported it asBarnaby Joyce reckons One Nation is ‘one of the gayest parties in Australia’ (opens QNews in a new tab)
One Nation removed former WA candidate Parminder Singh from its website after he claimed in a video that gay people have a mental illness. Federal MP Barnaby Joyce called the party 'one of the gayest in Australia' while distancing it from Singh’s remarks. LGBTQIA+ groups condemned the comments as harmful and baseless.
QNews reported it asOne Nation removes WA candidate from website after bizarre anti-gay interview (opens QNews in a new tab)
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.
- Ad Fontes MedialeanLeftCheck 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
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for QNews.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Australia
- Official site
- qnews.com.au
- Seen publishing on
- qnews.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
- 6
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 12 August 2026
5 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen QNews cover a story that outlets rated left 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 QNews’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 13 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 26 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 26 September 2026. Ratings pulled 11 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as QNews, 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 QNews 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.