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ausref - Australasian Government Reference Data
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ausref - Australasian Government Reference Data is a paid API for AI agents from ausref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns authoritative, cited government reference values (policy rates, VAT, minimum wages, public holidays) for Australia or New Zealand as structured JSON with staleness flags and official source citations.
Price / call$0.005
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Authoritative Australasian government reference values as clean JSON: central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, national minimum wages and public holidays for Australia (au), New Zealand (nz). Every value carries a citation to its official primary source (government gazette or central-bank statement), an effective date, a last-confirmed date and a staleness flag.
Output
A JSON object containing: the requested data series value and unit, the country, effective_from date, last_confirmed date, a stale boolean flag, descriptive notes with context about how/when the value was set, and a source object with the official primary source name and URL. Also includes a disclaimer noting the service is independent of government.
Example use cases
Compliance report with cited RBA cash rate
“I'm drafting a financial compliance report and need the current Reserve Bank of Australia cash rate — can you get me the exact value, when it took effect, and a link to the official RBA source so I can cite it properly?”
NZ GST rate check for invoicing system
“Our invoicing software needs to apply the correct GST rate for New Zealand — what is the current official NZ VAT/GST percentage, and is it still confirmed up to date?”
Australian minimum wage for HR policy update
“We're updating our HR policy and need the current national minimum wage for Australia with a citation to the official government gazette — can you pull that for me including the effective date?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://ausref.dev/v1/%7Bcountry%7D/%7Bseries%7DWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need machine-readable, officially cited government reference values for Australia or New Zealand — especially when you need to include a traceable primary source (government gazette, central bank statement) rather than relying on unverified third-party data. Ideal for compliance documents, financial applications, HR systems, or any context requiring an authoritative, dated reference rather than a best-effort web scrape.
Side effects
- Invalid country code returns an error (only 'au' and 'nz' are supported)
- Invalid series name returns an error (only policy-rate, vat-rate, minimum-wage, public-holidays supported)
- Data marked as stale if not recently confirmed against official sources
- Upstream government sites (e.g. rba.gov.au) may block automated fetching, causing delayed updates
- Payment failure via x402 protocol results in HTTP 402 before data is returned
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| properties | string |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"unit": "percent",
"notes": "The Board raised the target 25bp from 4.10% to 4.35% at its 5 May 2026 meeting (media release mr-26-12); RBA convention is that a change takes effect the business day AFTER the decision, hence effective_from 2026-05-06. The Board met again on 16 June 2026 and left the target unchanged, so 4.35% is confirmed current as at 2026-07-20. 2026 tightening sequence to date: 3.60% -> 3.85% (decision 3 Feb 2026, mr-26-03, eff. 4 Feb 2026), -> 4.10% (decision 17 Mar 2026, eff. 18 Mar 2026, a 5-4 split), -> 4.35% (decision 5 May 2026, eff. 6 May 2026), unchanged 16 Jun 2026. Since the Reserve Bank Reforms Act 2025 (Cth) commenced the decision-maker is the Monetary Policy Board (not the former single Reserve Bank Board), and votes are published: the May 2026 decision was 8-1 (eight to raise 25bp, one to hold at 4.10%). The RBA does not set the cash rate by legal instrument - it is an operational target implemented through open market operations and the Exchange Settlement Account remuneration corridor (ES balances remunerated at the target). ACCESS QUIRK: rba.gov.au returns HTTP 403 to automated fetchers; this value was read from the official page and media release via a plain-text rendering proxy (r.jina.ai) of the same URLs and via search-engine surfacing of rba.gov.au content, not from a third-party aggregator. Next scheduled decision: 11 August 2026.",
"stale": false,
"value": 4.35,
"series": "policy-rate",
"source": {
"url": "https://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/cash-rate/",
"name": "Reserve Bank of Australia, Cash Rate Target statistical table (F1.1) and Monetary Policy Board decision of 5 May 2026 (media release 2026-12, 'Statement by the Monetary Policy Board: Monetary Policy Decision', https://www.rba.gov.au/media-releases/2026/mr-26-12.html)"
},
"country": "AU",
"disclaimer": "Independent service, not affiliated with any government. Verify against the cited official source before legal or financial use.",
"effective_from": "2026-05-06",
"last_confirmed": "2026-07-20"
}
}Tags
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