The Sydney Morning Herald (AU) · the top story · first seen 2026-10-10 23:02 UTC · 10:02 Sun in Sydney

Revealed: The true cost of a private school education for Sydney parents

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The record

Outlet: The Sydney Morning Herald (AU) (smh)
Position: The top story
First seen: 2026-10-10 23:02 UTC · 10:02 Sun in Sydney
Last seen: 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC · 12:12 in Sydney · 13 polls · on the page for 2 h 9 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: e14e78a87efd027f8066d9182fb39d1e256c355e92e3bed3de875266e82717f2

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 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 this headline 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

The front page

The Sydney Morning Herald (AU)’s front page, as this site’s machine pictured it from the page kept 2026-10-10 23:02 UTC · 10:02 Sun in Sydney, with this headline (the top story) outlined in red — The page this site kept 2026-10-10 23:02 UTC · 10:02 Sun in Sydney, when the poller read this headline, as this site’s own machine pictured it 2026-10-10 23:06 UTC from the live page. The red outline is this headline, the top story, where that machine found it.

Shown here until 2026-10-17 23:02 UTC, then taken off this site and kept by the operator. A picture removed on request is deleted at once. SHA-256 `604db774e616c53cb341b456613f2f8d988b4587ed2db30ae863a1de95cccf5f`, listed in manifest #1242 (the manifest, its receipt), confirmed in Bitcoin block 970844.

The page is The Sydney Morning Herald (AU)’s work, shown so that this record can be checked against it. To ask for it to be removed, write to hello@headlinehalflife.com.

Timestamps

Wayback Machine · this pageCaptured 2026-10-10 23:08 UTC — view the capture.
Wayback Machine · 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.
OpenTimestamps · BitcoinConfirmed in Bitcoin block 970841, mined 2026-10-10 23:12 UTC. The proof.
This site’s copy of the front pageKept 2026-10-10 23:02 UTC, when the poller read it; SHA-256 ffa13209927c2029564dfa72b417555e73bf02509b3f005a79fb283774e77edd, listed in manifest #1241 (the manifest, its receipt), confirmed in Bitcoin block 970844. The page itself is not published.

Sealed automatically, 4 min after it was first seen.

Proof, and how to check it yourself

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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SHA-256: e14e78a87efd027f8066d9182fb39d1e256c355e92e3bed3de875266e82717f2

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970841, mined 2026-10-10 23:12 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

The record pageCaptured 2026-10-10 23:08 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

Hash the record: sha256sum headline-e14e78a87efd.json prints e14e78a87efd027f8066d9182fb39d1e256c355e92e3bed3de875266e82717f2. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
Drop headline-e14e78a87efd.json and headline-e14e78a87efd.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-e14e78a87efd.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 ffa13209927c2029564dfa72b417555e73bf02509b3f005a79fb283774e77edd for the page this site kept 2026-10-10 23:02 UTC. The hash is a line of manifest #1241, and the manifest's receipt proves the manifest existed by Bitcoin block 970844: with both saved, ots verify manifest-1241.txt.ots.
If someone shows you this site’s picture of that page (the Wayback Machine’s copy of this record page may hold it), hash it: sha256sum prints 604db774e616c53cb341b456613f2f8d988b4587ed2db30ae863a1de95cccf5f. That hash is a line of manifest #1242, beside the hash of the page it pictures, and the manifest’s receipt proves when it existed.