The New Zealand Herald (NZ) · slot 2 of the front page · first seen 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC · 14:12 in Auckland

'It's been such a long time': Dame Jacinda Ardern enters the election debate

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The record

Outlet: The New Zealand Herald (NZ) (nzherald)
Position: Slot 2 of the front page
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-dame-jacinda-ardern-enters-the-election-debate/PYWRPG3I3BHY7EYXMLXBXHLNCA/
SHA-256: ca20669c508c031760f289094bb52711061f20d40f2106781b5c4b03468a2bcd

The story

The other wordings of this story on The New Zealand Herald (NZ)'s front page, as this site's poller joined them: by the same link within 72 hours, or by a rewording within 24. As of now; not part of the record.

'It's been such a long time': Dame Jacinda Ardern enters the election debate this headline slot 2 of the front page · 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC → 2026-10-11 01:41 UTC · on the page for 29 min
'It's been such a long time': Dame Jacinda Ardern enters the election debate the top story · 2026-10-11 01:41 UTC → 2026-10-11 03:52 UTC · on the page for 2 h 10 min

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 (slot 2 of the front page) outlined in red — The page this site kept 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC · 14:12 in Auckland, when the poller read this headline, as this site’s own machine pictured it 2026-10-11 01:16 UTC from the live page. The red outline is this headline, slot 2 of the front page, where that machine found it.

Shown here until 2026-10-18 01:12 UTC, 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.

The page is The New Zealand Herald (NZ)’s work, shown so that this record can be checked against it. To ask for it to be removed, write to hello@headlinehalflife.com.

Timestamps

Wayback Machine · this pageNot captured. The Wayback Machine takes only so many captures a day from this site, so it is asked for the top story of each front page only; this headline was slot 2 of the front page.
Wayback Machine · the story pageNot captured. The Wayback Machine takes only so many captures a day from this site, so it is asked for the top story of each front page only; this headline was slot 2 of the front page.
OpenTimestamps · BitcoinConfirmed in Bitcoin block 970855, mined 2026-10-11 01:40 UTC. The proof.
This site’s copy of the front pageKept 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC, when the poller read it; SHA-256 25b07e89199b73437cdb5bc0021945bead1c8ad6d6d0745a1459e4d12528ba14, listed in manifest #1254 (the manifest, its receipt), confirmed in Bitcoin block 970855. The page itself is not published.

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The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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Download headline-ca20669c508c.json

SHA-256: ca20669c508c031760f289094bb52711061f20d40f2106781b5c4b03468a2bcd

OpenTimestamps

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

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Wayback Machine

The record pageNot captured. The Wayback Machine takes only so many captures a day from this site, so it is asked for the top story of each front page only; this headline was slot 2 of the front page.
The story pageNot captured. The Wayback Machine takes only so many captures a day from this site, so it is asked for the top story of each front page only; this headline was slot 2 of the front page.

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Hash the record: sha256sum headline-ca20669c508c.json prints ca20669c508c031760f289094bb52711061f20d40f2106781b5c4b03468a2bcd. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
Drop headline-ca20669c508c.json and headline-ca20669c508c.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-ca20669c508c.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
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.
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.
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.