From Uluru runoff to housing worries on ABC News Australia
Spectacular rain footage drew the week's largest upload audience, while a housing-market report is attracting the most viewing now.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Heavy rain floods Uluru | ABC NEWS
ABC News Australia posted 86 uploads this week, but its most-watched new arrival needed little explanation: water pouring down Uluru's sandstone face, turning rock crevices into waterfalls and flooding viewing walkways.
"Heavy rain floods Uluru | ABC NEWS" reached about 200,000 views. Its final sequence jumps back twenty minutes, showing the streams beginning to form before the much heavier runoff. The description places the downpour at the end of Matteo Giofre's five months travelling around Central Australia, an unexpected farewell to the landmark.
Attention is moving towards a less spectacular but more everyday concern. "Australian housing market continues downturn | ABC NEWS" is currently the channel's busiest video, reporting that prices are approaching a seventh consecutive month of declines. Weak demand and concern about a possible November rate rise frame that report.
The Villa Vie Odyssey's interrupted voyage also became a recurring subject. A report featuring Brisbane passenger Rina Cavazza, among those arranging to leave Cambodia after disembarking, drew the week's second-largest new-upload audience. A separate edition of The World brought in maritime historian Chris Frame to examine the residential-cruise model.
Across the channel, subscribers grew by roughly 10,000 over the week, and daily viewing is running moderately above its usual level. Among nearby broadcasters, The Guardian is also seeing above-usual daily viewing, while ABC News In-depth is quieter than normal. For ABC News Australia, the week's range runs from an extraordinary desert downpour to the financial pressures shaping homes and journeys.
A large sandstone monolith near the centre of Australia, in the southern Northern Territory. It is also known as Ayers Rock.
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- Channel
- ABC News (Australia)
- Subscribers
- 2,640,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 7,703,157
- Videos published this week
- 86
- Video published
- October 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 200,736
- Views on its first day
- 152,458
The numbers
Here is how ABC News Australia's viewing and subscriber growth shaped up over the week.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which ABC programme featured Justin Wolfers discussing oil prices this week?
Wolfers' discussion of oil prices, inflation and interest rates appeared on The Business.


