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Proof: Greens leader Larissa Waters steps down due to illness

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T10:21:02Z","headline":"Greens leader Larissa Waters steps down due to illness","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcau","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-28/larissa-waters-stepping-down-as-greens-leader/107205476","v":1}

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SHA-256

97c172b66f8bcb0462e373c7ace4ca1404f82720176b8fced481673f884c5ca1

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968982, mined 2026-09-28 10:38 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 10:22 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 10:00 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-97c172b66f8b.json prints 97c172b66f8bcb0462e373c7ace4ca1404f82720176b8fced481673f884c5ca1. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-97c172b66f8b.json and headline-97c172b66f8b.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-97c172b66f8b.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.