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Proof: After the ICAC brought dirty dealing to light, one operative is still elusive

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T01:13:01Z","headline":"After the ICAC brought dirty dealing to light, one operative is still elusive","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"smh","url":"https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/after-the-icac-brought-political-dirty-dealing-to-light-one-operative-remained-elusive-20261005-p6122p.html","v":1}

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90bd65d1496cefdeb7028829c4feed85d7f18ed37dc66a6666434d6c14866872

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969936, mined 2026-10-05 01:24 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 01:18 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:no-request.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-90bd65d1496c.json prints 90bd65d1496cefdeb7028829c4feed85d7f18ed37dc66a6666434d6c14866872. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-90bd65d1496c.json and headline-90bd65d1496c.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-90bd65d1496c.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, 4 min after it was first seen.