Australian public data, sourced and ranked
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RefDat turns public registers, census tables and climate records into ranked, cited tools you can check. Eight free reference sites. No sign-ups.
The data is public. Making it usable is the work.
Government agencies publish the raw material and then leave it as flat lists and PDF tables. RefDat does the missing work. We pull from named sources, build a ranking framework where one was needed, and write the plain-English explanation a data dump never will.
The register lists 26,468 providers. Most are not operating.
The NDIS Commission publishes its provider register as a flat list. We scored every entry on legitimacy, digital presence and recent activity. Nearly three in five are flagged Not Operating by the Commission itself.
NDIS Commission provider register, snapshot 15 May 2026. Active flag is the government's own.
Explore the NDIS Trust Index- Not Operating 15,503
- Poor 3,175
- Fair 1,916
- Good 3,213
- Excellent 2,661
Every suburb in Australia, placed on the advantage and disadvantage ladder.
We profiled all 17,265 ABS suburbs and put each one on the SEIFA scale, from the most disadvantaged tenth of the country to the most advantaged. Census income, rent and age sit on the same page, joined to live NDIS coverage.
ABS Census 2021 and SEIFA 2021, under CC BY 4.0. 520 LGA hubs on top.
Browse the rankingsSEIFA index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage. Each decile is roughly ten per cent of Australian suburbs.
Not the temperature. How liveable it actually feels.
A mean monthly temperature tells you almost nothing. Our Comfort Score folds heat, cold, humidity, rain and sun into a single 1 to 10 read for 213 Australian cities, so you can compare January in Cairns with July in Hobart honestly.
Open-Meteo historical climate data, 2024. Ideal pegged at 24 degrees.
See the extremesThe full Comfort Score also weighs humidity, rain and sun. This scale shows the heat and cold extremes behind the range.
Half are safe. A quarter need you to read the label.
We check common foods against both the Australian FSANZ standard and the US FDA rule, and let the stricter one win. The answer is rarely a clean yes or no, so we say exactly when it depends on the brand.
FSANZ and FDA standards, reviewed April 2026. Stricter rule wins.
Check a food- Gluten-free 176
- Depends on brand 77
- Contains gluten 94
Every bowser in NSW and the ACT, refreshed twice a day.
We pull the official NSW FuelCheck feed for 3,217 service stations and rebuild the rankings every morning and evening. Nine fuel types, down to the suburb, so you can see who is actually cheapest near you right now.
NSW Government FuelCheck API. 1,199 NSW and 39 ACT suburb pages.
Find cheap fuelNine fuel types ranked per suburb, colour-coded as on the bowser, updated 6am and 6pm AEST.
358 conversions, each tied to the official factor.
Not a calculator that guesses. Every conversion across 16 hubs traces back to the BIPM, NIST or National Measurement Institute definition, from cup-to-gram cooking weights to energy and pressure.
BIPM, NIST and NMI official conversion factors.
Convert somethingLength
Official definitions are used. Displayed examples are rounded for readability.
152 reviews with no invented ratings.
Australian product reviews that only claim what we can stand behind. No self-assigned star ratings, no stale prices presented as live. Just tested picks across electronics, home, kitchen, sport and baby, with best-of lists and head-to-head comparisons.
152 published reviews across 46 categories.
See the best-of listsRetail links
eBay prices are tracked live with price history. Amazon links are listings only, so you can check the current figure yourself.
The most famous movie line that nobody says.
A field guide to the things everyone repeats and no one checks. Each entry pairs the popular claim with the sourced correction, from the Mandela effect to misremembered science.
Primary sources cited on every entry.
Get the facts rightWhat everyone quotes
What is actually said
The Empire Strikes Back, 1980. A shared false memory, repeated by parody until the wrong version stuck.
The same three steps, every time.
It is not about listing everything on the web. It is about making public data usable, with the working shown.
Named, public, dated
ABS, BOM, FSANZ, the NDIS Commission, NSW FuelCheck, NIST. Authoritative public data only, with the licence and the snapshot date stated.
A framework where there was none
The NDIS Trust Index, the Weather Comfort Score, the gluten traffic light. Original scoring built where the source left only a flat list.
Plain English, with caveats
Every tool has a methodology page that says what we measured, what we did not, and where the data can mislead. The work is auditable.
A note on the bylines
RefDat keeps its contributors anonymous by choice. Investigative work in the NDIS space has a track record of attracting threats, so we let the methodology do the talking instead. Every framework is documented, every source is named, and every claim ties back to a primary record. The work stays auditable even when the people behind it are not named. Read our editorial standards.