Entity

Australia

An island continent and U.S. ally in the Indo-Pacific; a major minerals and energy exporter.

As of 13 Oct 2026Last evidence 13 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Lightning strikes twice for Steve Smith with Australia on top of South Africa in Durban

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Trial in killings of 3 US, Australian surfers in Mexico nears verdict

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Australia AI Investment Boom to Push Inflation Higher, Says Former RBA Official - News and Statistics

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Firmus is exploring raising up to $3 billion privately after pulling its Australian IPO

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • MITCHELL JOHNSON: Combined Australia-South Africa Test XI from players who played Test cricket from 1981

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 6 events and claims involving Australia

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 232 mentions on 13 Oct 2026, against 248 on 22 Sept 2026 (-6%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Australia yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 12 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “No change in Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rates at the November 2026 meeting?” moved from 66% to 74% Yes since 29 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

4,834 documents · 472 publishers · 23% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 13 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.233: about 77% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Australia

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

AIChinaUnited KingdomUnited StatesJapanFranceIndiaSydney
  • AI · 1,167 shared documents
  • China · 920 shared documents
  • United Kingdom · 739 shared documents
  • United States · 727 shared documents
  • Europe · 724 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Canadian · 705 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Japan · 660 shared documents
  • France · 609 shared documents
  • India · 561 shared documents
  • Sydney · 540 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +231% from 29 Aug 2026 to 13 Oct 2026, between 22 and 317 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Australia, day by day.

Market price, cited

74% Yes

priced 13 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 66% → 74% Yes (+8pts, from 29 Aug 2026 to 13 Oct 2026)

on “No change in Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rates at the November 2026 meeting?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Australia

“No change in Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rates at the November 2026 meeting?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/083925586aa677d14a11f1fd returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name australia.

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  "outlets": 188,
  "domains": 15,
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    "schema": "sb.node.v1",
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-13T17:34:46.374496+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "marketPrice": {
    "question": "No change in Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rates at the November 2026 meeting?",
    "yesPct": 74,
    "pricedOn": "2026-10-13",
    "attribution": "the market's own price",
    "relation": "actor-in"
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "587 mentions across 15 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "15 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 15,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 581 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Australia

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Lightning strikes twice for Steve Smith with Australia on top of South Africa in Durban

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Trial in killings of 3 US, Australian surfers in Mexico nears verdict

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Australia AI Investment Boom to Push Inflation Higher, Says Former RBA Official - News and Statistics

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    single source

  • Firmus is exploring raising up to $3 billion privately after pulling its Australian IPO

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • MITCHELL JOHNSON: Combined Australia-South Africa Test XI from players who played Test cricket from 1981

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • ATO credit card payment ban sparks Labor split as Clare O’Neil warns of rising costs for Australian businesses

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

Walk the record from Australia

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Australia

Entity.

Evidence
4,834 documents · 472 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 6 Apr 2026, last seen 13 Oct 2026
Measured
23% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
13 Oct 2026
17 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (6)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (1)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Australia, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about Australia

Markets whose question is about Australia or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Australia and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

  • 56.5% Yes

    “No change in Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rates at the December 2026 meeting?”

    Polymarket · priced 13 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “australia” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

What it connects to

Related records.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 13 Oct 2026.