Entity

Australia

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

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Rugby League World Cup: Australia edge New Zealand 24-22 in thrilling start to tournament

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • IAB Australia's audio glossary counts a play after one second of listening

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock tells closed conference aggressive hikes may be needed

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Australian Dollar crumbles as job losses shatter RBA rate hike hopes

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Iren targets 900MW data center campus in Wagga Wagga, Australia

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving Australia

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 273 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 42 on 26 Sept 2026 (+550%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 17 Oct 2026 (14 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 16 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “No change in Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rates at the November 2026 meeting?” moved from 60% to 84% Yes since 2 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

5,506 documents · 502 publishers · 4% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.041: about 96% 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 · 1,329 shared documents
  • China · 1,058 shared documents
  • United Kingdom · 858 shared documents
  • Europe · 851 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 820 shared documents
  • Canadian · 805 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Japan · 747 shared documents
  • France · 685 shared documents
  • India · 654 shared documents
  • Sydney · 616 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 273 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 42 on 26 Sept 2026 (+550%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +307% from 2 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, between 22 and 317 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Australia, day by day.

Market price, cited

84% Yes

priced 17 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 60% → 84% Yes (+24pts, from 2 Sept 2026 to 17 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": 200,
  "domains": 13,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-17T17:29:52.650730+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
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  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "marketPrice": {
    "question": "No change in Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rates at the November 2026 meeting?",
    "yesPct": 84,
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    "changes": 14
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  "whereFrom": {
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    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
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      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 647 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
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  }
}

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.

  • Rugby League World Cup: Australia edge New Zealand 24-22 in thrilling start to tournament

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • IAB Australia's audio glossary counts a play after one second of listening

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock tells closed conference aggressive hikes may be needed

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Australian Dollar crumbles as job losses shatter RBA rate hike hopes

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Iren targets 900MW data center campus in Wagga Wagga, Australia

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Yoti adds ConnectID bank verification to its age assurance product in Australia

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Samsung C&T refers 800MWh Darnum BESS in Victoria’s Gippsland region to Australia’s EPBC Act

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • AVL teams with US battery developer to test Australian vanadium

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Australia proposes leverage caps for crypto-settled derivatives

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Women hold just 12% of top mining jobs in Australia: report

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Australia beat South Africa by 214 runs: first men’s cricket Test, day five – live

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

    single source

  • 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

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
5,506 documents · 502 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 17 Oct 2026
Measured
4% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
22 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 17 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 16 Oct 2026

  • 17 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 16 Oct 2026

  • 16 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 11 Oct 2026

  • 16 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 11 Oct 2026

  • 11 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 10 Oct 2026

  • 11 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 10 Oct 2026

  • 10 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 9 Oct 2026

  • 10 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 9 Oct 2026

14 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026; the newest 8 shown, newest first.

Ask about AustraliaWatch Australia

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 17 Oct 2026.