day square

Friday 30 October 2026 · daily · 1976 stories

australia

1976 on the sheet

Australia · Guardian Australia

‘Someone has been following me’: safety fears after bullet inscribed with ‘RAT’ left on Victorian minister’s car

26 Oct 13:38

Paul Edbrooke says he fears for family’s safety amid heightened concerns for MPs after alleged attack on Helen Haines

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 26 Oct 13:38. The headline reads: ‘Someone has been following me’: safety fears after bullet inscribed with ‘RAT’ left on Victorian minister’s car. 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

‘Why would you delete a whole school?’: Catholic school set to close

Parents in the Southern Highlands have been blindsided by a decision to shut their school, amid wider cuts in the Catholic education sector.

30 Oct 15:58

Australia · Canberra Times

Teen fined $5k for white supremacist stickers as Nazi-salute charge goes to higher court

'Somewhat unusual circumstances' move case to Supreme Court.

30 Oct 15:55

Australia · ABC

Brumby advocate loses bid to stop aerial culling in NSW national park

Aerial culling will be able to resume in a northern NSW national park after a court ruled the state government was allowed to "eradicate" brumbies.

30 Oct 15:47

Australia · ABC

Jail term for speedway driver after grooming and raping teenager

WA speedway driver Dustin Gary Higgs was sentenced to prison for the sexual assault and grooming of a teenage girl.

30 Oct 15:40

Australia · ABC

Mother will 'never forgive' her toddler's killer, court hears

A woman whose former partner murdered her two-year-old child on the NSW Mid North Coast has spoken in court about her devastating loss.

30 Oct 15:37

Australia · ABC

Failures in supervision led to suicide in Canberra's jail, coroner says

An ACT coroner has found that failures in the supervision of a detainee who died by suicide at Canberra's jail contributed to his death, recommending changes to prison procedures and mental health services.

30 Oct 15:27

Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Metro opening triggers carnival atmosphere and new chapter for Sydney

The ribbon cutting ends more than two years of major disruptions and completes the 66-kilometre line which now connects the city’s south-west to the north-west.

30 Oct 15:19

Australia · Canberra Times

The new venue set to turn Lake Burley Griffin into an Olympic launch pad

A brand new sporting venue has opened at Lake Burley Griffin.

30 Oct 15:11