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Proof: ‘It used to be beautiful’: The quiet failure of Melbourne’s revamped City Square

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-01T21:20:36Z","headline":"‘It used to be beautiful’: The quiet failure of Melbourne’s revamped City Square","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"theage","url":"https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/more-seagulls-than-people-nine-months-after-reopening-city-square-is-a-ghost-town-20261002-p611b0.html","v":1}

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49b7c183fe79f52b36de0489a2c578b6d82c912774a2abced19ac6c5bf748a7d

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969500, mined 2026-10-01 23:00 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-01 21:22 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:no-request.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-49b7c183fe79.json prints 49b7c183fe79f52b36de0489a2c578b6d82c912774a2abced19ac6c5bf748a7d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-49b7c183fe79.json and headline-49b7c183fe79.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-49b7c183fe79.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.