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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": 263550,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "927a701e84ec570c0248e6f3d8d4c8d3",
            "title": "Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina reaches category three intensity ahead of impact on Darwin, Tiwi Islands",
            "description": "Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina is now a category three system, having strengthened in the Van Diemen Gulf this morning. It comes as the system is expected to bring wild weather to the Tiwi Islands and Darwin today.",
            "content": "Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina has intensified into a category three system this morning ahead of its expected impact on the Tiwi Islands and Darwin today.\nIn advice early Saturday morning, the Bureau of Meteorology said the the weather system had reac... [1961 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-22/severe-tropical-cyclone-fina-saturday-category-three-darwin/106040320",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/ca384388b1abd806afc413e8fa67d8c5?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=360&cropW=640&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-22T01:17:48Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "abc.net.au",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a3ef267f9ccab3ef7fad10d21c713617",
            "title": "Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina intensifies to category three system as it closes in on Darwin",
            "description": "It is the first cyclone of that strength in Australian waters in November in 20 years, with sustained winds of 120km an hour",
            "content": "Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina has intensified to a category three system as it closes in on Darwin today, making it the first cyclone of that strength in Australian waters in November in 20 years.\nNorthern Territory Emergency Service issued an emergen... [2964 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/22/severe-tropical-cyclone-fina-intensifies-to-category-three-system-as-it-closes-in-on-darwin",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0374367b0b39cefc8d7794f70fe5bb8da76bf383/1009_0_5043_4035/master/5043.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=378a4a777636750c458b5187067cd3f2",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-22T00:04:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3a4db76bae32b6ee05dcf0fee6d7a5ef",
            "title": "Kellie Sloane faces a treacherous road ahead as NSW Liberal leader - and has a heavy burden on her shoulders",
            "description": "If the Liberal party can’t sell itself to an aspirational city like Sydney, then its future is surely grim",
            "content": "It’s easy to see the sudden rush to female leaders of Liberal parties around Australia as a desperation strategy – a kind of “let’s try this, at least we will look different”.\nKellie Sloane’s stewardship of the Liberals in New South Wales will need t... [6243 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/nov/22/kellie-sloane-faces-a-treacherous-road-ahead-as-nsw-liberal-leader-and-has-a-heavy-burden-on-her-shoulders",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/527cfbb20b85d906fa5f5d938961d38fa9c61e69/902_200_5776_4622/master/5776.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=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctb3BpbmlvbnMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=2ad7e444f74971eed94163a07bd6e04c",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-21T23:48:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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