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Proof: State government seizes control of City of Sydney’s Town Hall square plan

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-08T22:41:51Z","headline":"State government seizes control of City of Sydney’s Town Hall square plan","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"smh","url":"https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/state-government-seizes-control-of-city-of-sydney-s-town-hall-square-plan-20261009-p612us.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

1e1feeddd64ce96ce964f816ec81b45103269a0e0b9854b100f09f5c7cf53e3c

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970545, mined 2026-10-08 23:41 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-08 22:42 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-1e1feeddd64c.json prints 1e1feeddd64ce96ce964f816ec81b45103269a0e0b9854b100f09f5c7cf53e3c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-1e1feeddd64c.json and headline-1e1feeddd64c.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-1e1feeddd64c.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, 1 min after it was first seen.