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Australia Nation News API

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

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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": 274360,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "65ba7b1013fdac4d4d68bd7e16aea8d9",
            "title": "Wake in Fright riffed on Broken Hill’s lack of affordable transport. Some things haven’t changed since 1971",
            "description": "Penry Buckley visited the Silver City in the footsteps of the classic Australia movie. The 13-and-a-half hour train to Sydney proved more gruelling than glamorous",
            "content": "I could be imagining it, but there’s a mineral taste in the air as I wait on the platform below a blackened, tumorous slag heap – the remains of what was once the most lucrative mine in the world.\nI’m trying not to think about the gruesome deaths of ... [7824 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/02/broken-hill-train-ride-like-wake-in-fright-film",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/108f80840f980ad6b406e8ab91c853cbdefadd58/472_277_3270_2616/master/3270.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=f2b53f2bd05c4eb612480821ae2b5952",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-01T14:02:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e2fdb0b9719989d08c21e90c2844d8a8",
            "title": "The place that stayed with me: Victoria’s far east coast was our endless summer home, until the night the campground burned",
            "description": "For decades Kate Mildenhall’s big life events pivoted around a treasured campsite. One day she’ll return …",
            "content": "Every summer for nearly 30 years, I camped on the wild coast of far east Victoria, on Gunaikurnai and Bidwell land. It’s a good seven hours from Melbourne and, even as kids, the rhythm of the trip up the highway was encoded in our DNA. Fuel at Nar Na... [3359 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/01/place-stayed-with-me-victoria-far-east-coast-campground",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/418dc6ce71fbfae47032477a1cdc91420352e87a/0_1103_2592_2074/master/2592.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=317bd5bc8e0f11260e0f606240869131",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-01T10:00:36Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fa9f2491a73b887742d9feea64c9e75a",
            "title": "Man, 35, drowns at popular Queensland tourist beach",
            "description": "The death of the Irish national, who was pulled from the water off an island, follows several other drownings this summer.",
            "content": "January 1, 2026 — 7:35pm\nYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.\nRemove items from your saved list to add more.\nSave this article for later\nAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.\nA 35-year-old man has died at a po... [2886 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/man-35-drowns-at-popular-queensland-tourist-beach-20260101-p5nr4z.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.2626%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_71/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/79f9c3221460915babd924545b8b1081a9e7f38ab2d921a9427f1a7d3b2d3698",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-01T09:35:28Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c603a60ac40ff998dd7aeead5e4953dc",
                "name": "Brisbane Times",
                "url": "https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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