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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.
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.
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 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.
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.)
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 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.