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Proof: Yes minister: The five controversial projects waved through on eve of election

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T22:33:00Z","headline":"Yes minister: The five controversial projects waved through on eve of election","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"theage","url":"https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/with-the-election-looming-five-controversial-developments-have-been-approved-20261007-p61362.html","v":1}

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b4939b701d8b07dd62fbd34a376230c091a585fed44158b0273f131801a09487

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970247, mined 2026-10-06 23:00 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 22:38 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-b4939b701d8b.json prints b4939b701d8b07dd62fbd34a376230c091a585fed44158b0273f131801a09487. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-b4939b701d8b.json and headline-b4939b701d8b.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-b4939b701d8b.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, 4 min after it was first seen.