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Australia Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from Australia with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Australia Nation News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Australia.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=au&category=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 255214,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "388080b10ccb39a9e28e29aca2db93f8",
            "title": "breaking rain forecast for northern and western Queensland",
            "description": "Intense rainfall across the north and west of Queensland is forecast to cause widespread flooding with damaging winds and risks to livestock.",
            "content": "Intense record-breaking rain causing flooding and threatening livestock is forecast across northern and western Queensland from today.\nBureau of Meteorology forecaster Shane Kennedy said parts of the north had already received up to 220mm since Satur... [3337 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-29/northern-and-western-queensland-brace-for-flooding/106183228",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/ceaeaa5b58990bf05c94599080776e89?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2251&cropW=4001&xPos=0&yPos=462&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-28T20:04:26Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ab1044fced53244ab59b2127f9073c74",
            "title": "Australia's driver courtesy wave dying out, say truckies, but experiment proves wave still alive on back roads",
            "description": "For generations, the courtesy wave has been etched into the Australian culture, but is it on the verge of dying?",
            "content": "The ABC has travelled more than 550 kilometres across regional Victoria and South Australia to find out whether drivers are still giving courtesy waves along our highways and country roads.\nThe \"wave test drive\" started in Mildura in Victoria's north... [3696 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-29/australian-drivers-truckies-courtesy-wave/106152822",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/27ce04cbf88e4b0c0a33072c07cf1228?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2250&cropW=4000&xPos=0&yPos=1&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-28T19:02:12Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6e9e3ead1424393eff7939757d36d984",
            "title": "‘It would drive some people crazy’: Victoria’s French Island remains remote, and that’s how most like it",
            "description": "Just 70km from Melbourne yet only accessible by ferry, the island’s isolation is the source of its appeal and its biggest drawback",
            "content": "Approaching French Island on the ferry at dawn, if you’re lucky you might be greeted by the sight of hundreds of ibis in flight. From far away, they look like starlings in murmuration, the flock constantly swelling and shifting like the sea far benea... [8784 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/28/it-would-drive-some-people-crazy-victorias-french-island-remains-remote-and-thats-how-most-like-it",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b7035486c4c93b220f000be01d3552f875a0f2f4/298_0_2915_2333/master/2915.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=6f5075c98581b9dfb0c6388066598faa",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-28T14:13:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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