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The New Zealand Herald (NZ) · the top story · first seen · 14:12 in Auckland

Act promises bigger spending cuts to drive debt lower, no income tax cuts

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The record

Outlet
The New Zealand Herald (NZ) (nzherald)
Position
The top story
First seen
2026-10-11 01:12 UTC · 14:12 in Auckland
Last seen
2026-10-11 01:41 UTC · 14:41 in Auckland · 3 polls · on the page for 29 min · as of now, not part of the record
Story URL
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-2026-act-promises-big-cuts-to-public-spending-and-aid-to-drive-debt-lower-but-no-income-tax-cuts/JJFEGDPWDJDCJEKQAHXHGISJ7A/
SHA-256
b6a02e40176227deea1f00025c1bbfe8f2b7cd69115f16738d9389ac819e0f75

The story

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The front page

The New Zealand Herald (NZ)’s front page, as this site’s machine pictured it from the page kept 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC · 14:12 in Auckland, with this headline (the top story) outlined in red

The page this site kept · 14:12 in Auckland, when the poller read this headline, as this site’s own machine pictured it from the live page. The red outline is this headline, the top story, where that machine found it.

Shown here until , then taken off this site and kept by the operator. A picture removed on request is deleted at once. SHA-256 0c9094e5ef7054ff701d685d65425f480eb28007627485f5ad139a3971ec6835, listed in manifest #1255 (the manifest, its receipt), confirmed in Bitcoin block 970855.

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The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970855, mined 2026-10-11 01:40 UTC.

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-b6a02e401762.json prints b6a02e40176227deea1f00025c1bbfe8f2b7cd69115f16738d9389ac819e0f75. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-b6a02e401762.json and headline-b6a02e401762.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-b6a02e401762.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.
  4. If someone shows you this front page as it was, hash it: sha256sum prints 25b07e89199b73437cdb5bc0021945bead1c8ad6d6d0745a1459e4d12528ba14 for the page this site kept 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC. The hash is a line of manifest #1254, and the manifest's receipt proves the manifest existed by Bitcoin block 970855: with both saved, ots verify manifest-1254.txt.ots.
  5. If someone shows you this site’s picture of that page (the Wayback Machine’s copy of this record page may hold it), hash it: sha256sum prints 0c9094e5ef7054ff701d685d65425f480eb28007627485f5ad139a3971ec6835. That hash is a line of manifest #1255, beside the hash of the page it pictures, and the manifest’s receipt proves when it existed.