# ausref - Australasian Government Reference Data History

> ausref - Australasian Government Reference Data History 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 the historical time series of a specific government reference data series (e.g. policy rate, VAT, minimum wage, public holidays) for Australia or New Zealand, with official citations and staleness flags.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://ausref.dev/v1/%7Bcountry%7D/%7Bseries%7D/history
- 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-history-b9e5bf9d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nZdOGkmZXZ-R78Y-dHPVM

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-history-b9e5bf9d
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the full history of Australia's central bank policy rate from ausref, including the effective dates and official RBA citations for each change?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the full historical time series (not just the current value) of Australasian government reference data with authoritative citations. Prefer it over scraping government sites directly (which may return 403 errors to bots) or using financial data aggregators that lack primary-source citations. Ideal for compliance, research, or financial modelling requiring an auditable chain of official sources.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid country code returns an error (only 'au' and 'nz' are supported)
- Invalid series name returns an error (must be one of policy-rate, vat-rate, minimum-wage, public-holidays)
- Stale flag set to true if the value has not been confirmed recently against the official source
- Upstream government sites (e.g. rba.gov.au) may block automated fetchers, causing delayed data freshness
- Empty history array if no historical records exist for the requested series

## 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 array of historical records for the requested country and series, each containing the value, unit, effective_from date, last_confirmed date, a staleness boolean, series name, country code, and a source object with the official primary source name and URL. A disclaimer notes the service is independent and users should verify against official sources.

## 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"
 }
}
```

## More

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- [Other services from ausref.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/ausref.dev/llms.txt)