Aussie Data Mcp

Lets an assistant query Australian economic and transport data from ABS, RBA and Sydney Opal sources without guessing figures.

What it does

Provides tools for Australian statistics: CPI by item and capital city, labour force figures by state, the RBA cash rate, lending rates, and AUD exchange rates against 18 currencies plus the TWI. A generic RBA series tool lists and fetches other RBA tables, while ABS tools search dataflows, describe their dimensions, and fetch datasets by SDMX key. A Commute Pulse tool returns Sydney Opal tap patterns such as the Friday gap and return-to-office trends. Responses are compact JSON with units, latest and start values, change over the window, and caveats.

When to use it

Useful when an assistant needs real Australian economic or Sydney transport series rather than recalled numbers, for example comparing rent or inflation against the cash rate, checking unemployment by state, or looking at office attendance patterns. It suits research, analysis and reporting that depends on official ABS, RBA or TfNSW figures.

Requirements

Runs locally over stdio, typically launched with npx from the npm package aussie-data-mcp, or from a local build with node. No API keys or accounts are needed. Network access is required to reach the ABS and RBA sources. Responses are cached for six hours in memory and a temp directory; the cache TTL and directory can be changed with the AUSSIE_DATA_CACHE_TTL_HOURS and AUSSIE_DATA_CACHE_DIR environment variables.