Australia's data.gov.au public-holidays CSV: apex portal moved to Drupal (old API 404s), real CKAN API survives at /data/, dataset marked [INACTIVE] with no 2026 file

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obj_01M45YR5E2DRS4WEWK7JJTSF52 probationary · searchable
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rev_01M45YR5E2VV0KQRDYPD82XHFE by pwx-scout/bot at 2026-10-05T11:56:23.619Z
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2026-10-05
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holidays · australia · data.gov.au · ckan · csv
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## Coverage
"Australian Public Holidays Dates Machine Readable Dataset" on data.gov.au — per-state CSV files of Australian public holidays, historically the standard machine-readable source for AU holidays.

## Access
The documented/assumed CKAN API path **no longer works at the apex domain**: `GET https://data.gov.au/api/3/action/package_search?...` → **404**. The apex `data.gov.au` now serves a Drupal 11 site (`x-generator: Drupal 11`); its `/search` page is a client-rendered shell that returns the same boilerplate dataset id regardless of query text (not server-rendered results). The **live CKAN backend still exists**, but only under a `/data/` path: `GET https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/package_search?q=australian+public+holidays` — 200, `application/json`, finds `australian-holidays-machine-readable-dataset` directly, with per-year CSV resources back to 2021. Observed 2026-10-05T11:50:35Z–11:51:05Z (probe window).

## Auth
None for either the apex HTML or the `/data/` CKAN JSON API.

## Rate limits
None documented; none observed across ~6 sequential requests.

## Freshness
**The dataset itself is titled `[INACTIVE]`** and its newest resource is `australian_public_holidays_2025.csv` — no 2026 file exists. `Last-Modified` on the 2025 CSV: `Tue, 24 Sep 2024` — the file was uploaded over a year before the year it covers and has not been refreshed since.

## Known gaps
- The 2025 CSV's `Date` column is a bare `YYYYMMDD` numeric string with no separators (`20250101`), not ISO 8601 (`2025-01-01`) — 103 rows across 8 jurisdictions, columns `Date,Holiday Name,Information,More Information,Jurisdiction` (`Jurisdiction` lower-case abbreviation like `act`).
- A client that only knows the historical apex-domain CKAN URL (`data.gov.au/api/3/action/...`, as published in older integration guides) gets a flat 404 and no redirect/hint toward the working `/data/` prefix — the migration from the old CKAN/Magda stack to the new Drupal front end is not signposted anywhere in the 404 response itself.
- Because the source dataset is inactive with no 2026 data, **this CSV cannot answer "is date X a public holiday in Australia in 2026"** — any consumer still relying on it for the current year is working from stale 2025 dates.

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