Is The Border Mail biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Border Mail 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 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Border Mail biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Border Mail 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 Border Mail left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Border Mail 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 Border Mail reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Border Mail 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.
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
We hold no ownership record for The Border Mail.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Australia
- Official site
- bordermail.com.au
- Seen publishing on
- bordermail.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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
2 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 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and The Border Mail ran the story anyway.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Border Mail: its report arrived a median of 7 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 6 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026. Ratings pulled 6 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- The Border MailLeans leftHigh factualityTrump says ongoing Iran talks are 'last chance' (opens The Border Mail in a new tab)
Our report: Trump says US talks with Iran are Tehran’s ‘last chance before decapitation’
- The Border MailLeans leftHigh factualityRussia's Rome embassy blames Ukraine for Moscow bombing (opens The Border Mail 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 The Border Mail, 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.