The Bendigo Advertiser media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give The Bendigo Advertiser one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Bendigo Advertiser biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Bendigo Advertiser one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Bendigo Advertiser left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Bendigo Advertiser one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is The Bendigo Advertiser reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Bendigo Advertiser are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Bendigo Advertiser has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Bendigo Advertiser’s own report linked underneath.
Democrats are projected to win a majority in the House of Representatives and have taken control of the Senate following the US midterm elections. The results mark a significant setback for Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
The Bendigo Advertiser reported it asA political drama that was impossible to ignore (opens The Bendigo Advertiser in a new tab)
Gold prices surpassed $4,000 per ounce and silver neared $52 as the US dollar index dropped to a five-week low. Markets reacted to potential Democratic control of Congress and geopolitical tensions.
The Bendigo Advertiser reported it asA political drama that was impossible to ignore (opens The Bendigo Advertiser in a new tab)
Milan police used tear gas and water cannons against protesters throwing stones, looting shops, and setting bins on fire near Piazza Duomo. Over 60 protesters were taken to the police station, and 28 were arrested following similar unrest in other Italian cities.
The Bendigo Advertiser reported it asViolent unrest in Milan as police detain 160 (opens The Bendigo Advertiser in a new tab)
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has threatened "additional measures" against Ukraine unless Kyiv publicly apologizes for disclosing the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers. Seoul claims Ukraine breached a non-disclosure agreement, while Kyiv describes the dispute as a "diplomatic misunderstanding."
The Bendigo Advertiser reported it asS Korea threatens Ukraine over N Korea POWs transfer (opens The Bendigo Advertiser in a new tab)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he will use his UN General Assembly speech to "tell the truth" about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Netanyahu accused Mamdani of supporting Hamas and inciting violence against Jews, while Mamdani has called Netanyahu a "war criminal" and "architect of a horrific genocide."
The Bendigo Advertiser reported it asNetanyahu expected to berate NY mayor in UN address (opens The Bendigo Advertiser 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.
The Bendigo Advertiser reported it asAsh grounds flights as Indonesian volcano erupts (opens The Bendigo Advertiser 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.
The Bendigo Advertiser reported it asAsh grounds flights as Indonesian volcano erupts (opens The Bendigo Advertiser in a new tab)
Students in Perth, Melbourne and other Australian cities skipped school to protest against Pauline Hanson and One Nation. Organisers said the rallies were against racism and far-right policies, while Hanson condemned the protests and urged students to focus on cost-of-living issues.
The Bendigo Advertiser reported it asBendigo students walk out of class to protest against Pauline Hanson (opens The Bendigo Advertiser in a new tab)
President Trump called off a planned military escalation against Iran after warnings from military advisors about high casualties and low missile stocks. The US has evacuated bases in Iraq and relocated forces to Israel, while Iran denies negotiations and threatens retaliation against regional energy infrastructure.
The Bendigo Advertiser reported it asStatus of US-Iran talks uncertain as ship hit in Hormuz (opens The Bendigo Advertiser in a new tab)
A cargo ship was hit by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, the British Maritime Safety Authority said. The attack, near Oman’s coast, follows previous incidents involving Tehran’s forces in the key oil and gas export route.
The Bendigo Advertiser reported it asStatus of US-Iran talks uncertain as ship hit in Hormuz (opens The Bendigo Advertiser 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Bendigo Advertiser.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Australia
- Official site
- bendigoadvertiser.com.au
- Seen publishing on
- bendigoadvertiser.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
- 10
- Reports listed
- 10
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
9 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.
On 5 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and The Bendigo Advertiser ran the story anyway.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Bendigo Advertiser: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 7 November 2026. Ratings pulled 9 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Bendigo Advertiser, 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 The Bendigo Advertiser 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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