# ausref - Australasian Government Reference Data

> 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.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://ausref.dev/v1/%7Bcountry%7D/%7Bseries%7D
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ausref-australasian-government-reference-data-6d3451f7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Oru0S8Y0id-qfh-r1Tq5b

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability ausref-australasian-government-reference-data-6d3451f7
```

Example prompt: What is Australia's current central bank policy rate? I need the official value with a citation to the primary government source and the effective date so I can include it in a compliance document.

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "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"
 }
}
```

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