News from Australia
173,788 news articles from publishers in Australia, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.perthnow.com.au with 15,499 articles, 8.9% of the total, followed by thewest.com.au, todayssummary.com. By language it splits into English (161,555), Chinese (9,152), Portuguese (597) and 2 more. Daily volume averages about 2,369 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 3,242 on 2026-10-15.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=AU&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=AU&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Australia articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=AU&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-23T07:09 | ‘Looksmaxxer’ social media influencer Clavicular pleads not guilty to rape | www.theage.com.au |
2026-10-23T07:09 | ‘Looksmaxxer’ social media influencer Clavicular pleads not guilty to rape | www.smh.com.au |
2026-10-23T07:00 | Best market conditions in years: how producers can capture the windfall | www.farmonline.com.au |
2026-10-23T06:51 | Player ratings: Three facing axe as Aussies told to end ‘experiment’ | www.nine.com.au |
2026-10-23T06:45 | Australia news LIVE: Save the Children fundraiser for Helen Haines surpasses $600,000 as the MP | www.smh.com.au |
2026-10-23T06:45 | Australia news LIVE: Save the Children fundraiser for Helen Haines surpasses $600,000 as the MP | www.theage.com.au |
2026-10-23T06:36 | North Korea issues ‘horrible’ threat against neighbour | www.nine.com.au |
2026-10-23T06:35 | Aussies pumped by Proteas in Gqeberha | www.smh.com.au |
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.perthnow.com.au | 15,499 | 8.9% | query |
thewest.com.au | 12,909 | 7.4% | query |
todayssummary.com | 11,780 | 6.8% | query |
www.smh.com.au | 9,489 | 5.5% | query |
ausnznet.com | 9,152 | 5.3% | query |
www.theage.com.au | 8,987 | 5.2% | query |
www.brisbanetimes.com.au | 8,738 | 5.0% | query |
7news.com.au | 5,411 | 3.1% | query |
mitchellake.com | 4,452 | 2.6% | query |
www.nine.com.au | 3,672 | 2.1% | query |
thenightly.com.au | 3,405 | 2.0% | query |
www.afr.com | 3,380 | 1.9% | query |
www.foxsports.com.au | 3,161 | 1.8% | query |
www.ibtimes.com.au | 2,743 | 1.6% | query |
au.motorsport.com | 2,653 | 1.5% | query |
journalarta.com | 2,216 | 1.3% | query |
www.canberratimes.com.au | 2,047 | 1.2% | query |
www.newcastleherald.com.au | 1,798 | 1.0% | query |
www.fool.com.au | 1,515 | 0.9% | query |
www.justhorseracing.com.au | 1,445 | 0.8% | query |
www.bordermail.com.au | 1,262 | 0.7% | query |
www.illawarramercury.com.au | 1,234 | 0.7% | query |
www.standard.net.au | 1,042 | 0.6% | query |
traveldaily.com.au | 1,034 | 0.6% | query |
www.examiner.com.au | 1,018 | 0.6% | query |
Languages published in Australia
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| en | English | 161,555 | 93.0% |
| zh | Chinese | 9,152 | 5.3% |
| pt | Portuguese | 597 | 0.3% |
| ru | Russian | 255 | 0.1% |
| fr | French | 92 | 0.1% |
Domain zones used by Australia publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| au | Australia | 129,042 | 74.3% |
| com | global commercial | 41,823 | 24.1% |
| net | global network | 1,629 | 0.9% |
| co | Colombia | 760 | 0.4% |
| org | organisations | 454 | 0.3% |
| news | news publications | 80 | 0.0% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 2,698 | |
2026-10-21 | 2,518 | |
2026-10-20 | 1,799 | |
2026-10-19 | 1,818 | |
2026-10-18 | 2,033 | |
2026-10-17 | 1,751 | |
2026-10-16 | 3,096 | |
2026-10-15 | 3,242 | |
2026-10-14 | 3,150 | |
2026-10-13 | 3,047 | |
2026-10-12 | 3,084 | |
2026-10-11 | 1,848 | |
2026-10-10 | 1,761 | |
2026-10-09 | 2,997 |
Combine with other filters
# Australia, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=AU&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Australia, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=AU&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Australia, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=AU&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"