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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": 257370,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "4a3a0eda6f7280af891ad30255055e26",
            "title": "University of Melbourne’s pioneering vice-chancellor Emma Johnston dies aged 52",
            "description": "Emma Johnston AO became first woman to lead the 172-year-old institution in February 2025",
            "content": "A transformative science researcher and the first woman to lead of one of Australia’s top universities has died.\nUniversity of Melbourne vice-chancellor Emma Johnston died from complications with cancer, the university announced on Monday.\nShe was 52... [2985 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/29/emma-johnston-university-melbourne-vice-chancellor-dies-aged-52",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/67e55013ed1ff5fe10f5f769ad48129e28abd38f/1054_99_4876_3901/master/4876.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=bd6029c70a5e4c5832ee046d196d0df7",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-29T04:33:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d434d409f52dc3285215fbe8e6d6e569",
            "title": "Police with machine guns at Sydney New Year’s Eve are part of ‘fundamental changes’ after Bondi, Minns says",
            "description": "NSW premier says some will find police presence confronting but ‘we won’t be mucking around’",
            "content": "The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns has promised a massive security presence on the streets of Sydney on New Year’s Eve including police armed with machine guns and a possible army deployment.\nSpeaking at the site of the massacre of 15 people at... [3337 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/29/police-machine-guns-sydney-new-years-eve-after-bondi-ntwnfb",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7d6058c95e17e1380a611497a49207e00bacfcce/558_0_4018_3215/master/4018.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=b2ae69e556870a501d549381c50476ec",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-29T04:22:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "216c825500bb07fbd2359962b229be43",
            "title": "Passengers on cruise ship that ran aground off PNG to be flown home after refloat efforts fail",
            "description": "Coral Adventurer, being investigated for allegedly leaving behind passenger who died, ran aground with 124 people on board on Saturday",
            "content": "An Australian cruise ship remains stuck on a reef off Papua New Guinea despite efforts to free it, with passengers set to be flown home early.\nThe Coral Adventurer, which ran aground on Saturday morning, was already under investigation as a result of... [2618 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/29/passengers-on-cruise-ship-that-ran-aground-off-png-to-be-flown-home-after-refloat-efforts-fail",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8a9305659e87f832f3127ea283df29f8c55a6410/540_0_3543_2835/master/3543.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=5534c697a50988600e059eee74e4cde0",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-29T03:49:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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