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AUSTLII - Full Text Australian Legal ResourcesThe AustLII collection contains full-text databases of most Australian decisions and legislation. Current databases include Commonwealth, ACT, Northern Teritory, Victorian, Western Australian, NSW and SA legislation and regulations, most federal courts (High Court, Federal Court, Family Court, AAT etc) and most state courts and tribunals. AustLII also includes a number of more specialised (subject specific) databases as well as the most comprehensive index to Australian law on the Net. Also included in AustLII is the Australian Treaties Library, a fully searchable, hypertext-linked resource that includes treaty texts, indexes, status lists, and explanatory material.
Australian Copyright CouncilAustralian Copyright Council: Provides access to a range of information sheets, books, news items, training programs and policy documents.
Australian Criminal Justice StatisticsAustralian Institute of Criminology: A wide range of Australian criminal justice statistics which can be browsed by region or topics such as courts, fraud, cybercrime and policing. Some selected international crime statistics are also included.
Informit: CINCH is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice. This subset includes information on the involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the justice system. Source documents include journal articles, monographs, monograph chapters, conference papers, government documents, book reviews and theses. Subject coverage includes all aspects of crime and criminal justice including corrections, crime, crime prevention, criminal law, criminology, juvenile justice, law enforcement, police and victims of crime. Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.
Australian Federal, State, Territory and Local GovernmentsAustralian Government Information Management Office: This is a whole-of-government single point of access (portal) that provides access to Internet-based government information and services across federal, State, Territory and Local levels.
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity CommissionAustralian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: Information about human rights issues relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including information for employers, teachers and students. The site also includes statistical information.
Australian Industrial Relations CommissionAustralian Industrial Relations Commission: The focus of the site is to provide the latest AIRC decisions, awards, transcripts and related information. The site arranges the content for different readers, such as students and the media accessible from the tabs. The search tab leads to text searching of decisions, awards, transcripts and other AIRC/AIR documents. Decisions can also be searched by keyword. Recent additons include the rules of registered organisations and a searchable database of awards [Documents/Current Awards]. The Annual Reports for both the AIRC and the AIR are now available online.
Butterworths: Contains 1. Halsbury's laws of Australia (This work gives detailed access to laws and relevant law cases) 2) Australian current law. (This lists new legislation under broad subject headings.)
Butterworths: Contains 1. Australian legal words and phrases 2. Butterworth's encyclopaedic Australian legal dictionary 3. Statutes annotations
Australian Policy OnlineInstitute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology: Australian social and cultural policy from over eighty member centres and institutes. APO offers fast access to much of the Australian social, economic, cultural and political research available online.
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.