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Proof: Labour committed to banning bottom trawling in Hauraki Gulf but it 'can't be done immediately'

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49ae36d0147f9e7e35fc057749fad4ca21ac149e6df415b4bed967b1557d7053

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970703, mined 2026-10-10 01:20 UTC.

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• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-10 00:57 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-49ae36d0147f.json prints 49ae36d0147f9e7e35fc057749fad4ca21ac149e6df415b4bed967b1557d7053. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-49ae36d0147f.json and headline-49ae36d0147f.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-49ae36d0147f.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.

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