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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": 267566,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1b79d2217a5248bf346be53bd8709d0d",
            "title": "Australia news LIVE: Inflation jumps to 3.8 per cent; Fresh Optus outage affecting Triple Zero calls in Melbourne; Richard Branson announces wife’s death",
            "description": "Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and beyond.",
            "content": "After eight years and a total cost of $15 billion, Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel is opening on Sunday.\nFive new stations and two new underground tunnels spanning nine kilometres will link the inner north-west with the inner south-east.\nIt’s the first big ... [7898 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/national/australia-news-live-trump-tells-thousands-of-myanmar-citizens-on-temporary-protection-visas-to-go-home-hanson-under-fire-for-use-of-expenses-in-racism-case-20251126-p5nigf.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.9099%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_369%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/t_metro_live_no_age_social_wm/7506b0651438eb4bcdc178915d6dffd7fa37316d",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-26T01:33:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1ff3476ed56f7f6ee23dc1d69d365546",
            "title": "Horrific death of Kardell Lomas sparks urgent calls for new independent oversight of police",
            "description": "Federal government’s expert advisory panel on sexual violence says it repeatedly warned of chronic failure of police to adequately investigate violence",
            "content": "Members of the federal government’s own expert advisory panel on sexual violence have called for “urgent” independent national oversight of police after new revelations about Queensland police failures before the killing of First Nations woman Kardel... [2712 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/26/horrific-death-kardell-lomas-urgent-calls-independent-police-oversight",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3b2f7f829be611304bc0a74a213d334715fb6aa3/0_344_1536_1228/master/1536.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=ecdfe1d6d468afb72519a660c5ed5c5c",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-26T01:28:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a4beb1eace2ade045970047274a59c8c",
            "title": "The moment of dreadful clarity: How Katie Allen’s daughter recognised her worst fear",
            "description": "As a doctor, Allen had delivered news like this to parents before. Now, she was on the other side.",
            "content": "I meet Allen on Chapel Street in South Yarra, the suburb where she boarded at Melbourne Girls Grammar and one of the enduring anchors of her life. She lives in neighbouring Toorak, and represented the former seat of Higgins from 2019 to 2022.\nAbacus ... [9925 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/the-moment-of-dreadful-clarity-how-katie-allen-s-daughter-recognised-her-worst-fear-20251125-p5nibt.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.17140642153968844%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/2c6b2ed92190b9acdaee0a62ac2f454a3b7b2123",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-26T01:26:59Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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