Entity

Australia

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

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • RBA rate hike looms as Tanya Plibersek and Barnaby Joyce clash over Australia’s GFC-level interest rates

    Reported event · first reported 28 Sept 2026 to 29 Sept 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Australian consumer sentiment slumps after RBA hike as Westpac tips another in November

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Australia probes flydubai co-pilot's links to the country, police say

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Australian Dollar weakens as robust US data, rising US yields overshadow RBA rate hike

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

  • US and Australia suspend consular services in Brazil ahead of election citing security concerns

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

All 11 events and claims involving Australia

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 289 mentions on 8 Oct 2026, against 182 on 17 Sept 2026 (+59%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Australia yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 7 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “No change in Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rates at the November 2026 meeting?” moved from 74% to 84% Yes since 24 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

4,252 documents · 451 publishers · 23% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.234: about 77% of mentions carry no typed assertion

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 StatesJapanFranceSydneyIndia
  • AI · 1,063 shared documents
  • China · 802 shared documents
  • United Kingdom · 639 shared documents
  • United States · 636 shared documents
  • Europe · 625 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Canadian · 606 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Japan · 577 shared documents
  • France · 515 shared documents
  • Sydney · 485 shared documents
  • India · 483 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +445% from 24 Aug 2026 to 8 Oct 2026, between 22 and 317 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Australia, day by day.

Market price, cited

84% Yes

priced 8 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 74% → 84% Yes (+10pts, from 26 Aug 2026 to 8 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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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-08T17:31:13.825968+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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    "relation": "actor-in"
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
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    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "5 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
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      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "76 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 18,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
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      },
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        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 284 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.

  • RBA rate hike looms as Tanya Plibersek and Barnaby Joyce clash over Australia’s GFC-level interest rates

    Reported event · first reported 28 Sept 2026 to 29 Sept 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • RBA rate hike looms as Tanya Plibersek and Barnaby Joyce clash over Australia’s GFC-level interest rates · corroborated · first reported 28 Sept 2026 · 3 separate publishers
    • Australia's RBA lifts interest rates to highest level in 15 years · corroborated · first reported 29 Sept 2026 · 3 separate publishers

  • Australian consumer sentiment slumps after RBA hike as Westpac tips another in November

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Australia probes flydubai co-pilot's links to the country, police say

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Australian Dollar weakens as robust US data, rising US yields overshadow RBA rate hike

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

    corroborated

  • US and Australia suspend consular services in Brazil ahead of election citing security concerns

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Australia's CDC plans gigawatt-scale data center campus in Wagga Wagga

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • McKinsey rebukes Australian partner who questioned challenges facing women CEOs

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Australia faces 'biggest property downturn in 40 years', raising recession risk

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Australia summons OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to appear at AI inquiry

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Australia to pursue AI guardrails after unprecedented OpenAI breach - ABC News & Headlines

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Australian senator demands OpenAI explain its role in government website hacks

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Australia

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Australia

Entity.

Evidence
4,252 documents · 451 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 8 Oct 2026
Measured
23% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Oct 2026
22 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (12)

  • 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.

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.

1 more headline counted but not shown: no source link on file

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.

Pull a thread

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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 8 Oct 2026.