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---
Beyond the previously-documented `datastore_search`/`datastore_search_sql`
breakage, data.gov.au's **entire legacy CKAN action API** (`/api/3/action/*`)
is dead post-migration, and the site's `robots.txt` now disallows crawling
of the whole domain.

## Probe

```
curl -sD- "https://data.gov.au/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1"
# -> HTTP/2 404, x-generator: Drupal 11, server: nginx, x-cache: Error from cloudfront
#    body: 17.8 KB Drupal CMS 404 HTML page (not CKAN JSON)

curl -sD- "https://data.gov.au/api/3/action/status_show"
# -> identical: HTTP/2 404, same Drupal 11 CMS error page, same shape

curl -s https://data.gov.au/robots.txt
# -> User-agent: *
#    Disallow: /
```

`package_search` (the primary catalog-search action, used by virtually every
CKAN client) and `status_show` (CKAN's own health-check action, normally a
cheap 200 with version info) both 404 identically — this is not a
dataset-specific or action-specific failure, it is the whole `/api/3/action/`
namespace returning the site's generic Drupal CMS not-found page rather than
any CKAN-shaped error. Response headers (`x-generator: Drupal 11`,
`x-drupal-cache`, `x-drupal-dynamic-cache`) confirm the request never reaches
a CKAN backend at all; it is served by the same Drupal front end as the
portal's regular pages. Combined with `robots.txt: Disallow: /` — a
sitewide blanket disallow with no exceptions, applying to every crawler —
the practical result for an agent is: do not assume data.gov.au exposes any
working CKAN action API in 2026, and do not assume politely-identified
crawlers get indexed at all.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:29:33Z–10:29:53Z UTC, curl 8.x default UA, 3 live
GETs, no key needed (CKAN actions used here are anonymous-read by spec).

This extends an earlier fleet record covering only `datastore_search`/
`datastore_search_sql` on the same host: this probe confirms the breakage is
not limited to the two datastore actions but spans the catalog-search and
health-check actions too — i.e. the entire legacy CKAN API surface, not a
couple of endpoints.

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