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EBSCO Publishing: Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) contains full text for over 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, business, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, health and medical sciences. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for many more journals and many journals are peer reviewed. The EBSCO suite also contains links to other databases: Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Health Source (Consumer and Nursing/Academic editions), Clinical Pharmacology and more. These databases are updated daily on EBSCOhost. Examples of titles offered in Academic Search Premier include: American Historical Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Libraries, American Sociologist, British Journal of Psychology, British Journal of Sociology, Central European History, Contemporary Literature, Early American Literature, English Language Notes, Family Relations, International Journal of Psychology, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism, Journal of Counseling & Development, Journal of Education, Political Science Quarterly, Journal of General Psychology, Journal of Genetic Psychology, Journal of International Affairs, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Journal of Marriage & Family, Journal of Politics, Journal of Psychology, Journal of Social Psychology, Library Journal, Social Forces, Sociological Review, Theological Studies, Women's Studies.
A compendium of legislative changes in social security 1908-1982: Changes in social security in Australia specifically: Age and invalid pension; Widow's pension and supporting parent's benefits; Unemployment, sickness and special benefits; Maternity allowance; Family allowance; Handicapped child's allowance; Double orphan's pension; Family income supplement; Social security bills; Explanatory notes. Contains lists of sources; list of tables that indicate the rates of payment.
Informit: AFPD supports the information needs of personnel involved in Federal law enforcement and community policing. Subjects covered include policing, criminology, law enforcement, management, and occupational health and safety.
Informit: AGIS Plus Text includes some full text articles, and covers all aspects of law including: banking, companies and securities, constitutional law, criminal law, environmental law, copyright law, family law, legal aid and human rights. Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals are comprehensively indexed and abstracted, and material from major US, UK and Canadian law journals is selectively included.
Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements (ATNS)Indigenous Studies Program, The University of Melbourne: The Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements (ATNS) project is an ARC Linkage project examining treaty and agreement-making with Indigenous Australians and the nature of the cultural, social and legal rights encompassed by past, present and potential agreements and treaties. The project also examines the process of implementation and the wider factors that promote long term sustainability of agreement outcomes. The ATNS database is an online gateway which links together current information, historical detail and published material relating to agreements made between Indigenous people and others in Australia and overseas. The ATNS database is designed for the use of Indigenous and other community organisations, researchers, government and industry bodies.
IDC Publishers: Guide to the microfiche collection with title: Amnesty International. ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE NEWSPAPER READING ROOM ON JUKE BOX PC.
AsianLII - Asian Legal Information InstituteAsianLII provides for searching and browsing databases of legislation, case-law, law reform reports, law journals and other legal information, where available, from all 27 countries and territories in Asia . Over 140,000 cases from at least 15 countries, and over 15,000 pieces of legislation from at least 18 countries are searchable. For every country, AsianLII contains an extensive Catalog of law-related websites for that country, and a Law on Google facility assisting users to search Google only for legal materials from that country.
ATOlaw: The ATO Legal DatabaseThe Legal Database is a collection of legal and policy information. Here you have access to much of the material the Australian Tax Office uses when making decisions, including: Legislation and supporting material, Public Rulings and Determinations, Case Decision Summaries (details of important decisions made by the ATO), ATO Practice Statements (directions to ATO staff on how to apply the laws administered by the Commissioner), Tax related case law.
Attorney-General's Department (Australia)Attorney-General's Department: This site provides an overview of the Australian legal system; links to Australian Commonwealth legislation through ComLaw and Scaleplus; most current Commonwealth court and tribunal decisions; some Australian State and Territory legislation and case law; information about the Australian Government Attorney-General's Office, portfolio and Department; links to the Family Law Online Internet site; and links to all Attorney-General's portfolio agencies currently publishing on the Internet.
Informit: The records contained in this subset specifically relate to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and deal with legal issues such as land rights, native title, customary law, Aboriginal deaths in custody, aborigines in the criminal justice system, racial discrimination, indigenous intellectual property and Aboriginal youth and juvenile justice.
Electoral rolls on microfiche are available in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room on open access unless specified otherwise.
This resource contains links to major Australian legal sites on the Internet organised by jurisdiction. It provides links to the websites of all commonwealth courts (federal, high and family courts of Australia) and state law resources including legislation, parliaments and courts.
The Library holds a large collection of material relating to Australian politics and government. This guide contains selected print works only.
The National Library holds law reports published in Australia from 1825. Historical sets of law reports are also held for many overseas countries. Court records include unpublished decisions, transcripts of proceedings (verbatim accounts of statements given during the course of proceedings), letters, lists of trials, depositions, circulars, bench books etc. They may cover the topics of wills (grants of probate or letters of administration), divorce, bankruptcy, civil and criminal cases, naturalisation, newspaper registrations and conscientious objectors.
The Library holds large numbers of publications by and about the League of Nations. This guide contains selected print works only.
The Library holds many publications about the United Nations as well as an extensive collection of official United Nations publications. This guide contains selected print works only.
These are general sites for researching the Australian government on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They lead to a diverse range of information on Australian government resources as well as providing links to other useful sites.
This guide contains information on British parliamentary publications held at the National Library of Australia. A selection of useful Internet sites is also included.
This is a guide to primary sources of information held at the National Library of Australia for students of United States history and current United States foreign and economic policy.