The Sydney Morning Herald (AU) · the top story · first seen 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC · 12:12 in Sydney

Ben Roberts-Smith joins 600 veterans as Albanese marks Australia’s 25 years in Afghanistan

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The record

Outlet: The Sydney Morning Herald (AU) (smh)
Position: The top story
First seen: 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC · 12:12 in Sydney
Last seen: 2026-10-11 03:03 UTC · 14:03 in Sydney · 11 polls · on the page for 1 h 50 min · as of now, not part of the record
Story URL: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/ben-roberts-smith-joins-600-veterans-as-albanese-marks-australia-s-25-years-in-afghanistan-20261011-p614hr.html
SHA-256: 4f48d050c921f4e5e63a0ef7d85537da881752acd74e6251c0f9da8086052964

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.

Ben Roberts-Smith joins 600 veterans as Albanese marks Australia’s 25 years in Afghanistan this headline the top story · 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC → 2026-10-11 03:03 UTC · on the page for 1 h 50 min
Ben Roberts-Smith joins 600 veterans as Albanese marks Australia’s 25 years in Afghanistan slot 5 of the front page · 2026-10-11 03:03 UTC → 2026-10-11 03:12 UTC · on the page for 9 min

The front page

The Sydney Morning Herald (AU)’s front page, as this site’s machine pictured it from the page kept 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC · 12:12 in Sydney, with this headline (the top story) outlined in red — The page this site kept 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC · 12:12 in Sydney, when the poller read this headline, as this site’s own machine pictured it 2026-10-11 01:16 UTC from the live page. The red outline is this headline, the top story, where that machine found it.

Shown here until 2026-10-18 01:12 UTC, then taken off this site and kept by the operator. A picture removed on request is deleted at once. SHA-256 `ac1e18c5b6fd66cd5d3b67b7c5646b8dde5a331d55cfea3da961287f94289208`, listed in manifest #1255 (the manifest, its receipt), confirmed in Bitcoin block 970855.

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Wayback Machine · this pageCaptured 2026-10-11 01:17 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 970855, mined 2026-10-11 01:40 UTC. The proof.
This site’s copy of the front pageKept 2026-10-11 01:12 UTC, when the poller read it; SHA-256 50eca17a86ce7be32470d152829f79c25951876ebdda904f108721de9f4055d3, listed in manifest #1254 (the manifest, its receipt), confirmed in Bitcoin block 970855. The page itself is not published.

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The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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SHA-256: 4f48d050c921f4e5e63a0ef7d85537da881752acd74e6251c0f9da8086052964

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970855, mined 2026-10-11 01:40 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

The record pageCaptured 2026-10-11 01:17 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.

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Hash the record: sha256sum headline-4f48d050c921.json prints 4f48d050c921f4e5e63a0ef7d85537da881752acd74e6251c0f9da8086052964. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
Drop headline-4f48d050c921.json and headline-4f48d050c921.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-4f48d050c921.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
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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 ac1e18c5b6fd66cd5d3b67b7c5646b8dde5a331d55cfea3da961287f94289208. That hash is a line of manifest #1255, beside the hash of the page it pictures, and the manifest’s receipt proves when it existed.