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Notes on Australian government data and the API that ships it.
Reading ABS CPI without opening a spreadsheet
ABS Catalogue 6401 is a 12-tab XLSX with a Series ID lookup. Here's how to skip the download and get headline CPI, trimmed mean, and group decomposition over HTTP.
Plugging Australian government data into Claude with one MCP server
A 60-second walkthrough of pointing Claude Desktop at ausdata-mcp, then asking it to compare real wages and the cash rate without writing a line of code.
How to fetch the RBA cash rate in Python (without parsing CSVs)
Stop parsing RBA F-table CSVs in pandas. Get the live cash rate in one line of Python with the ausdata SDK.