The Sydney Morning Herald (AU) · slot 2 of the front page · first seen 2026-10-10 18:30 UTC · 05:30 Sun in Sydney

The cost of 13 years of private school to hit $800k

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The record

Outlet: The Sydney Morning Herald (AU) (smh)
Position: Slot 2 of the front page
First seen: 2026-10-10 18:30 UTC · 05:30 Sun in Sydney
Last seen: 2026-10-10 19:42 UTC · 06:42 Sun in Sydney · 7 polls · on the page for 1 h 11 min · as of now, not part of the record
Story URL: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-cost-of-13-years-of-private-school-to-hit-800k-20261011-p610gq.html
SHA-256: b505fd9818a36b3712c1153019e474f8265b4b990c9269c0917cff9ed8a0fa03

The story

The other wordings of this story on The Sydney Morning Herald (AU)'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.

The cost of 13 years of private school to hit $800k this headline slot 2 of the front page · 2026-10-10 18:30 UTC → 2026-10-10 19:42 UTC · on the page for 1 h 11 min
The cost of 13 years of private school to hit $800k slot 5 of the front page · 2026-10-10 19:42 UTC → 2026-10-10 20:03 UTC · on the page for 21 min
Revealed: The true cost of a private school education for Sydney parents slot 5 of the front page · 2026-10-10 20:03 UTC → 2026-10-10 23:02 UTC · on the page for 2 h 59 min
Revealed: The true cost of a private school education for Sydney parents the top story · 2026-10-10 23:02 UTC → 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC · on the page for 2 h 9 min
Revealed: The true cost of a private school education for Sydney parents slot 2 of the front page · 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC → 2026-10-11 02:21 UTC · on the page for 1 h 8 min
Revealed: The true cost of a private school education for Sydney parents slot 3 of the front page · 2026-10-11 02:21 UTC → 2026-10-11 03:03 UTC · on the page for 42 min

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 970809, mined 2026-10-10 18:50 UTC. The proof.
This site’s copy of the front pageKept 2026-10-10 18:30 UTC, when the poller read it; SHA-256 0a667ec558b8179ddea16be1c9e8bee3052b23a65f8a72d0f43d6aa979d46636, listed in manifest #1215 (the manifest, its receipt), confirmed in Bitcoin block 970808. The page itself is not published.

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The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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SHA-256: b505fd9818a36b3712c1153019e474f8265b4b990c9269c0917cff9ed8a0fa03

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970809, mined 2026-10-10 18:50 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-b505fd9818a3.json prints b505fd9818a36b3712c1153019e474f8265b4b990c9269c0917cff9ed8a0fa03. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
Drop headline-b505fd9818a3.json and headline-b505fd9818a3.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-b505fd9818a3.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 0a667ec558b8179ddea16be1c9e8bee3052b23a65f8a72d0f43d6aa979d46636 for the page this site kept 2026-10-10 18:30 UTC. The hash is a line of manifest #1215, and the manifest's receipt proves the manifest existed by Bitcoin block 970808: with both saved, ots verify manifest-1215.txt.ots.