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Proof: Prominent Sydney Indigenous leader arrested over child sex allegations

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T23:22:24Z","headline":"Prominent Sydney Indigenous leader arrested over child sex allegations","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"smh","url":"https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/prominent-sydney-indigenous-leader-arrested-over-child-sex-allegations-20261008-p613rm.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

74d4adbdd1048dad41d4ebaf14ecf951d3cc0a4ea12432daf796792a17d04167

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970407, mined 2026-10-07 23:46 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 23:27 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageNot captured. The newsroom's site does not let the Wayback Machine capture the story page: every recent attempt at its story pages failed (error:no-request), so they are no longer sent; one a day still is, to notice if that changes.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-74d4adbdd104.json prints 74d4adbdd1048dad41d4ebaf14ecf951d3cc0a4ea12432daf796792a17d04167. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-74d4adbdd104.json and headline-74d4adbdd104.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-74d4adbdd104.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, 5 min after it was first seen.