The Aussie is a commodities receipt
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Australia exports what China builds with, so the Aussie dollar often reads like a proxy for Chinese demand as much as an Australian one.
AUD/USD tends to track the price of iron ore and other bulk commodities because Australia's export mix is concentrated in raw materials sold largely into China, so a shift in Chinese demand can move the currency as much as a single RBA rate decision does, even though the central bank gets most of the headlines.