day square

Sunday 25 October 2026 · daily · 729 stories

australia

729 on the sheet

Australia · Guardian Australia

Morning Mail: Victoria’s female MPs ‘on high alert’; Snowy Hydro’s $25bn bill; and Tour de France routes revealed

23 Oct 06:42

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here , and finish your day with our Politics, really newsletter . Good morning. With just five weeks until the Victorian election, female MPs say they are “on high alert” over potential threats after the alleged attack on independent MP Helen Haines. International students across Australia say they fear disruption to their lives as they are fo

This line is Day Square’s own note, added so the page is not only a headline. Guardian Australia placed the item on the Australia wire at 23 Oct 06:42. The headline reads: Morning Mail: Victoria’s female MPs ‘on high alert’; Snowy Hydro’s $25bn bill; and Tour de France routes revealed. The paragraph above is the whole text that came with it. No name, figure, or quote was added.

Read the original →

How to read Day Square

The paragraph above is the short note Guardian Australia sent on its Australia wire. Day Square does not copy another newsroom’s full article. The sheet keeps the headline, that note, a photo when the wire sent one, and the link. The full story is at Read the original, on that newsroom’s own page.

Day Square is one English sheet a day for Australia. Australia takes ABC, Guardian Australia, SBS, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Canberra Times. A foreign story filed by one of those newsrooms still sits under Australia. World is BBC, SBS World, and Guardian World. Australia and World are the same hour of the paper.

Latest is arrival order. Desk is where a story is added by hand, and where the front and the hidden items are chosen. The wires are read about every 30 minutes. A photo is shown only when the wire sent one. The number on the blue band is the number of stories on the sheet. Hidden stories are not counted.

The front is a grid. A story Desk pins is marked front and sits first. The line under a wire note names only the source, the time, and the headline. From this paragraph down is Day Square’s own note, put here for now to fill the page. It is not the body of the lead above. The pictures below belong to other stories that arrived in this issue.

Pictures in this issue

Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Superquiz, Sunday, October 25

Trivia buffs, test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz.

24 Oct 23:59

Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Former Port Adelaide player Daniel Stewart dies, aged 37

The AFL community is in shock over the sudden death of Daniel Stewart, aged 37, who played for Port Adelaide from 2010-2013.

24 Oct 23:14

Australia · ABC

WA premier confronted by South Hedland community members

WA's premier was heckled in his first visit to South Hedland since announcing a coronial inquest into the deaths of three local children.

24 Oct 20:53

Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Cox Plate as it happened: Stars align for Cosmic Crusader as trainer Andrea Leek makes history

Andrea Leek felt like an “imposter” after upstaging some of racing’s biggest names when Cosmic Crusader won a historic edition of the $6 million Cox Plate in front of 34,617 racegoers at Flemington.

24 Oct 20:51

Australia · ABC

Fire breaks out at Hitler's mountain retreat, suspect arrested

Around 200 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze at the Eagle's Nest, in Bavaria, which Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler used as a retreat to host foreign dignitaries in its mountaintop teahouse.

24 Oct 20:16

Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Young driver rescued in Queensland floodwaters

A young driver has survived a terrifying plunge into floodwaters on the Sunshine Coast, with rescuers reaching the man in the nick of time.

24 Oct 19:54

Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Support worker charged with multiple child sex offences

A support worker at a South Australian school is behind bars, accused of serious child sex offences.

24 Oct 19:48

Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Powerful storms sweep across South Australia

Powerful spring thunderstorms are sweeping across South Australia, bringing widespread rain and dangerous winds.

24 Oct 19:43