News from Australia
80,569 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 15,047 articles, 18.7% of the total, followed by thewest.com.au, www.ibtimes.com.au. By language it splits into English (77,373), Chinese (2,131), Portuguese (145) and 2 more. Daily volume averages about 2,320 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 3,216 on 2026-09-04.
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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T22:01 | 以军袭击黎南部村庄致九人死亡 | ausnznet.com |
2026-09-07T22:01 | 中国注资540亿美元救银行保险业 股市仍下跌 | ausnznet.com |
2026-09-07T22:01 | 捷豹路虎裁员数千人 削减23亿美元成本应对竞争 | ausnznet.com |
2026-09-07T22:01 | 维州反腐改革临变数 部分指控或遭排除 | ausnznet.com |
2026-09-07T22:01 | 维州男子持斧袭亲 警方展开追捕 | ausnznet.com |
2026-09-07T22:01 | 澳所罗门群岛达成新条约原则协议 澳承诺9.8亿援助 | ausnznet.com |
2026-09-07T22:01 | 工党民调惨跌 党魁Hipkins面临换帅压力 | ausnznet.com |
2026-09-07T22:00 | 惠灵顿野生奇异鸟十年守护终获自由 | ausnznet.com |
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 | 15,047 | 18.7% | query |
thewest.com.au | 10,046 | 12.5% | query |
www.ibtimes.com.au | 2,871 | 3.6% | query |
au.motorsport.com | 2,258 | 2.8% | query |
www.smh.com.au | 2,257 | 2.8% | query |
www.foxsports.com.au | 2,234 | 2.8% | query |
7news.com.au | 2,171 | 2.7% | query |
www.theage.com.au | 2,147 | 2.7% | query |
ausnznet.com | 2,131 | 2.6% | query |
www.brisbanetimes.com.au | 2,115 | 2.6% | query |
todayssummary.com | 1,726 | 2.1% | query |
www.afl.com.au | 1,659 | 2.1% | query |
www.finnewsnetwork.com.au | 1,456 | 1.8% | query |
www.goal.com | 1,344 | 1.7% | query |
www.wangarattachronicle.com.au | 853 | 1.1% | query |
thenightly.com.au | 794 | 1.0% | query |
www.nine.com.au | 731 | 0.9% | query |
www.businessnews.com.au | 723 | 0.9% | query |
www.afr.com | 643 | 0.8% | query |
www.nowtolove.com.au | 639 | 0.8% | query |
fnarena.com | 635 | 0.8% | query |
www.sciencealert.com | 618 | 0.8% | query |
www.thegazette.com.au | 496 | 0.6% | query |
www.bartvsports.com.au | 459 | 0.6% | query |
www.canberratimes.com.au | 428 | 0.5% | 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 | 77,373 | 96.0% |
| zh | Chinese | 2,131 | 2.6% |
| pt | Portuguese | 145 | 0.2% |
| ru | Russian | 116 | 0.1% |
| fr | French | 60 | 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 | 65,672 | 81.5% |
| com | global commercial | 13,915 | 17.3% |
| net | global network | 692 | 0.9% |
| org | organisations | 151 | 0.2% |
| co | Colombia | 118 | 0.1% |
| news | news publications | 20 | 0.0% |
| io | technology | 1 | 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 | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 1,322 | |
2026-09-06 | 2,174 | |
2026-09-05 | 2,004 | |
2026-09-04 | 3,216 | |
2026-09-03 | 2,940 | |
2026-09-02 | 2,672 | |
2026-09-01 | 2,172 | |
2026-08-31 | 2,063 | |
2026-08-30 | 1,823 | |
2026-08-29 | 1,922 | |
2026-08-28 | 3,137 | |
2026-08-27 | 3,427 | |
2026-08-26 | 2,843 | |
2026-08-25 | 1,690 |
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"