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Law and Legislation
- Courts and Tribunals
- International Law
- Legislation for the Commonwealth, States and Territories
- Other Australian Resources
- Parliamentary Documents
- Subject Gateways and Portals
Courts and Tribunals
- Lawlink - Courts and Tribunals - Links to NSW and other State and Federal Courts and Tribunals.
International Law
- Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
- Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) - Access databases including legislation and court decisions from 52 Commonwealth and common law countries and external territories and dependencies.
- Office of Public Sector Information (UK) - Access UK legislation (1987 - 2006).
- THOMAS Library of Congress (US) - Search for legislative information from Library of Congress.
- United Nations
- World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) - Databases of case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, law journals, and other materials are included for regions including Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and the Pacific Islands.
Legislation for the Commonwealth, States & Territories
- Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) - Full text of Acts, Regulations and Court Decisions of Commonwealth and States.
- ComLaw - Maintained by the Attorney-General's Department includes current Commonwealth primary legislation and the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI). Historical data also included. Bills from 1996 +
- SCALEplus - From 2005 most of the material previously published on SCALEplus is now being published on ComLaw. Data still to be migrated includes:all historical databases, Statutory Rules that are not in force, and the legislation of the non-self-governing Territories.
Other Australian resources
- Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
- Australian Institute of Criminology
- Australian Law Reform Commission
- Commonwealth Ombudsman
- Wagenet - Full text of Australian Federal industrial awards, agreements, decisions.
Parliamentary Documents
Including Bills and Hansard...
- Legislative Assembly of the ACT
- Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
- Parliament of Australia
- Parliament of NSW
- Parliament of South Australia
- Parliament of Tasmania
- Parliament of Victoria
- Parliament of Western Australia
- Queensland Parliament
Subject Gateways & Portals
- Australian Law Online -This Australian government website provides access to law and justice related information and services from all levels of government. Information about the Australian legal system and the government organisations that are part of the Australian legal system.
- FindLaw Australia - Commercial website offering free legal information and articles for legal professionals, students, the public and business. Includes Find a Lawyer Directory.
- GovPubs: Australian Government Publications Guide - Guide to selected types of Australian government publications, such as Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers, located in Australia's National, State and Territory libraries or available on the Internet.
- LAWLEX - Includes a subject index of principal Australian legislation. (Restricted parts of this service are not available.)
- WebLaw - Cooperative subject gateway for Australian legal researchers maintained by Law Librarians from Australian Universities and other organisations.