Australian Full Text Documents



Archives

Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM)
url: http://www.nla.gov.au/raam/

National Archives of Australia
url: http://www.naa.gov.au/

Directory of Archives in Australia
url: http://www.archivists.org.au/directory/asa_dir.htm

State Records - New South Wales
url: http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/staterecords/

Bills

Commonwealth

Old Bills
Listings and status of bills introduced to the Federal Parliament and passed by the parliament from 1996 onwards.
url: http://search.aph.gov.au/search/ParlInfo.ASP?action=browse
&Path=Legislation/Old+Bills&Start=3&koe

Current Bills (by Title)
Listings and status of bills currently being processed by the Parliament.
url: http://search.aph.gov.au/search/ParlInfo.ASP?action=browse
&Path=Legislation/Current+Bills+by+Title&Start=3&gDY#top

See also

Bills Net
Comprehensive site with detailed information about current and past Commonwealth bills.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/bills/

Commonwealth Parliament Document Collection
Very detailed site containing texts of the parliamentary handbook, bills, debates, biographies, budget papers, procedural documents, press releases, media transcripts, policy documents, index to journal articles etc.
url: http://search.aph.gov.au/search/ParlInfo.ASP#top?action=browse

States

See the Table of Government Sites for the websites of state parliaments as a starting point for locating bills where available.

Budgets

Commonwealth

2005/2006 Budget [To be released Tues 10 May at 7.30pm]
url: http://www.budget.gov.au

1996/97-
url: http://www.budget.gov.au/

Budgets are also available at the following alternative sites:
Dept of Finance and Administration
Australian Taxation Office
National Library of Australia
Parliament of Australia

States

see the Table of Government Sites

Elections

Election Archives | Federal Elections | State and Territory Elections | Republic Referendum

Election Archives

Australian Electoral Commission
The home site of the AEC provides information about voting, electoral procedures and a history of elections in Australia, but no longer gives detailed election results.
url: http://www.aec.gov.au/

Australian Government and Politics
"A database of parties, elections, governments and representation for state and federal parliaments since 1890."
url: http://elections.uwa.edu.au/

Pandora Archive - Australian Election Campaigns
Snapshot archive of websites preserved for historical interest by the National Library of Australia.
url: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/subject/6

Adam Carr's Australian Election Archive
Very comprehensive site with data going back to 1901.
url: http://psephos.adam-carr.net/

Commonwealth Parliamentary Library Election site
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/pol/polelect.htm

Federal Elections

1998 | 1996 | 2001 | 2004

Federal Election, 9th October 2004

Australia Votes: Antony Green's Election Guide
ABC website with election news and expert commentary
url: http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2004/guide/default.htm

Election 2004
Sydney Morning Herald website with the latest election news, plus an archive of previous news
url: http://www.smh.com.au/specials/election2004/
url: http://www.smh.com.au/specials/election2004/archive/

Federal Election, 10th November 2001

2001 Australian federal election campaign - Australian Internet sites
Snapshot archive of websites of the 2001 election preserved for historical interest by the National Library of Australia.
url: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/22028

Federal Election, 3rd October 1998

Commonwealth Parliamentary Library Election site 1998 Election
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1998-99/99rp09a.htm

ABC Election 98 site
url: http://www.abc.net.au/election98/

1998 Australian Federal Election Archive
url: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/col/c4001

Federal Election 1996

1996 Australian Federal Election Archive
url: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/col/c4000

See also the home pages of the various Australian political parties. and the Pandora Archive

State and Territory Elections

ACT Elections Archive 1989-
url: http://www.elections.act.gov.au/leg.html

Northern Territory Election Archive 1980-
Northern Territory Election, Saturday 18th August 2001
url: http://notes.nt.gov.au/nteo/Electorl.nsf/Results?OpenView&Start=1&Count=300&Expand=1#1

Queensland State Election, 7th February 2004
url: http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/2004/summary.html

Queensland Election 2001 Archive
2001 Queensland State Election Campaign (held 17 February 2001).
url: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/col/c4003

South Australian State Election, February 2002
url: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/col/c5200

Tasmanian State Elections, 1993-
url: http://www.electoral.tas.gov.au/

Victorian State Election results
Victorian Electoral Commission site.
url: http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/stateresults.html
Currently 2002 results available here. Results for State elections and by-elections 1996 will appear soon.

Western Australian State Election 2001
WA Electoral Commission site for the state election held 10 February 2001.
url: http://www.electionswa.com.au/

Western Australian State Election 2001 Archive
2001 Western Australian State Election Campaign - Australian Internet Sites (election held 10 February 2001).
url: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/col/c4004

See also:

Election Archive (Pandora)
url: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/subject/6

Republic Referendum 1999

Referendum 1999
The national Library of Australia's archive site for the referendum held on Saturday 6th November 1999 and the republic debate in general.
url: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/subject/27


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Government Gazettes

Commonwealth Gazettes

Commonwealth of Australia Gazettes
This National Office for the Information Economy site has full listings of Commonwealth government gazettes, with links to online versions where available.
url: http://www.publications.gov.au/index.php?gazettes

Gazettes - Australia (Commonwealth)
Web Publications holdings: information about Commonwealth gazettes with links to electronic versions.
url: http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/govpubs?action=FindPublication&institutionId=10&publicationType=5&jurisdiction=2&category=Find

Australian Government - Gazettes Online
This Attorney-General's Department site has links to the online versions of Commonwealth government gazettes.
url: http://www.ag.gov.au/portal/govgazonline.nsf

Public Service Gazette
Electronic version of the Public Service section of the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette dating from 30th November 2000.
url: http://www.psgazetteonline.gov.au/index2.html

Information about Commonwealth Gazettes
This site gives information about the electronic and paper versions of the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Some gazettes are available online either as search engines or PDF documents.
url: http://www.publications.gov.au/?gazettes

State Gazettes

New South Wales Government Gazette
Current edition only, with index for October 2000 onwards.
url: http://www.gai.dpws.nsw.gov.au/Gazette/Gazette.htm
NOTE: The NSW Government gazette is also available from March 1996 onwards via the Capital Monitor search engine [Available only to University of Sydney users]. Tick NSW as a main category and include the word "gazette" in your search. Adjust the time period if you need to search prior to the current year.

See also Awards Online (NSW).

Queensland Government Gazette
url: http://www.goprint.qld.gov.au/web/web/index.asp?Pg=31

South Australian Government Gazette
Includes an archive from Jan 1999 onwards, with index and search engine.
url: http://www.governmentgazette.sa.gov.au/

Victorian Government Gazette
Includes an archive from Jan 1998 onwards.
url: http://www.gazette.vic.gov.au/RecentGazettes.htm

Western Australian Government Gazette
Includes an archive from 1998 onwards.
url: http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/gazette/gazette.nsf

Historical Documents

Documenting a Democracy
National Archives of Australia site containing the texts of key Australian historical documents.
url: http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/home.htm

Australian Constitution
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/general/constitution/index.htm

Records of the Australasian Federal Conventions of the 1890s
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/pubs/records.htm

Australian Federation Full Text Database
A Centenary of Federation Project at the University of Sydney Library, containing full text searchable versions of federation documents
url: http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/fed/

National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway
Covering the history of Australia's Federation period, this National Library of Australia site includes both primary and secondary research resources. The site has a concise chronology section with several valuable embedded links and a resources section that helps users find online information about the period as well as giving recommendations for text, maps, film and other resources.
url: http://www.nla.gov.au/guides/federation/index.html

Australian History Resources
url: http://www.austudies.org/info/docs.html

Industrial Awards

OSIRIS: Australian Industrial Relations Information Site
Industrial awards, agreements and decisions.
url: http://www.osiris.gov.au/

AIRC (Australian Industrial Relations Commission)
Industrial awards, hearings, speeches and decisions.
url: http://www.airc.gov.au/index.html

Awards Online (NSW)
Online full-text version of the New South Wales Industrial Gazette which allows searching by occupation, workplace, award name, award code and words in the awards.
url: http://www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/awards/which/

Legislation and Cases

Australian Law Online
Australian Law Online is provided by the Australian Government to give all Australians access to Government legal information and services available nationwide. To access Commonwealth, State and Territory government legal information search using the links on the map or browse using the navigation bar.
url: http://www.law.gov.au/

FindLaw Australia
Wide ranging interface to Australian legal sources, and has links to a range of free services including databases which contain legislation, cases, parliamentary debates. There are also articles covering around 50 areas of law sourced from lawyers, firms, government and non-profit organisations.
url: http://www.findlaw.com.au/

TimeBase
Key site for locating Australian legal information, especially Commonwealth and State Legislation and Cases (Full Text).
url: http://www.timebase.com.au/

AustLII
Australasian Legal Information Institute. The key site for locating Australian legal information, especially Commonwealth and State Legislation and Cases (Full Text).
url: http://www.austlii.edu.au/

SCALEPlus
Australian Attorney Generals Department's Legal Database, especially Commonwealth and State Legislation and Cases (Full Text) See also ComLaw
url: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/

ComLaw
Australian Attorney Generals Department's Legal Database, especially Commonwealth and State Legislation and Cases (Full Text)
See also ScalePlus, which is being phased out. From January 2005 current material (notably the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments [FRLI]) is being loaded into ComLaw, which will eventually replace Scaleplus.
url: http://www.comlaw.gov.au/

LawSearch Online
Database of Commonwealth Legislation produced by AusInfo, the commonwealth government publisher. (Full Text)
url: http://www.lawsearch.gov.au/

Foundation Law Site
This is the Law Foundation of NSW official site, and has links to lots of legislation not included in the AustLII site.
url: http://lawfoundation.net.au/redirect.html

New South Wales Legislation
The NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office Internet site gives full text access to NSW acts, regulations and bills. The site provides free access to NSW legislation in force, both Acts and statutory instruments, and features advanced searching and browsing facilities. In addition, the site contains an archival collection of NSW legislation as it was made (since 1990) and will also retain all historical versions of legislation, including repealed legislation.
url: http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/

Queensland Legislation
The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel's Internet site.(Full Text). Queensland legislation is not available from the above sites.
url: http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/

Western Australian legislation
The WA Department of the Premier and Cabinet, State Law Publisher Internet site.(Full Text).
url: http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/statutes/swans.nsf

See Also:

Bills

Commonwealth Parliament Document Collection
Very detailed site containing texts of the parliamentary handbook, bills, debates, biographies, budget papers, procedural documents, press releases, media transcripts, policy documents, index to journal articles etc.
url: http://search.aph.gov.au/search/ParlInfo.ASP#top?action=browse

Weblaw
"WebLaw is a legal researcher's first choice for accessing online Australian legal information. It provides lawyers, students, researchers and lay professionals with annotated links to up-to-date, quality assessed internet resources."
url: http://weblaw.edu.au/weblaw/

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Media Releases

Australian Government Media Releases
url: http://www.australia.gov.au/News_and_Media

See also the Table of Government Sites and the official home pages of the state and federal departments and agencies for links to news releases.

See also

Commonwealth Parliament Document Collection
Very detailed site containing texts of press releases, media transcripts as wll as the parliamentary handbook, bills, debates, biographies, budget papers, procedural documents, policy documents, index to journal articles etc.
url: http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/search_main.aspx?
Limit your search to media via the Collection drop down box, then tick Press releases, radio programmes, etc as appropriate.

NSW Government Media Releases

Go to the NSW Government Home page and type media releases or press releases (two separate searches) in the search box at the top right of the screen. This gives a list of agencies and departments with media or press releases on their web page.

Newspapers

The Sydney Morning Herald
url: http://www.smh.com.au/

Index to the Sydney Morning Herald (InfoQuick)
State Library of NSW index to the SMH
url: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/infoquick/

The Age (Melbourne)
url: http://www.theage.com.au/

Australian Financial Review
url: http://www.afr.com.au/

The Australian
url: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/

Canberra Times
url: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/

Australian Newspapers
Comprehensive list of Australian Newspapers.
url: http://www.nla.gov.au/npapers/

Listing of Australian Newspapers [Google]
url: http://directory.google.com/Top/News/Newspapers/Regional/Australia/

Factiva [available for University of Sydney users only]
Factiva provides news, commentary, pictures, company information and stock quotes. The database contains more than 8,000 overseas and Australian newspaper and newswire publications and more than 9,000 web sites. For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive is 13-22 years [SMH 1986+, AFR 1982+] and the News Limited archive is 8 years [Australian 1996+]. There is also a briefer archive on media transcripts for the ABC, SBS and Channel 9 (up to 1 year archive). Overseas media transcript archives are longer (up to 5 years). Pictures of major news events and reports also are available.
url: Factiva

Opinion Polls

Roy Morgan Research
url: http://www.roymorgan.com.au/

NewsPoll
Results of Newspoll surveys are also reported in The Australian. (You can also use Factiva to search The Australian for reports and commentry on newspoll results.)
url: http://newspoll.com.au/cgi-bin/display_poll_data.pl

SSDA Opinion Polls
Database of public opinion polls held at the the Social Sciences Data Archive at the Australian National University.
url: http://assda.anu.edu.au/polls/

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Parliamentary Debates (Hansards)

Commonwealth Hansards | State Hansards

1. Commonwealth Hansards (House, Senate and Committee Hansards) 1981-

* Search by subject, speaker etc.
* Search by date.

2. State Hansards

ACT Legislative Assembly Hansard March 1991-
url: http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/

NSW Hansard September 1988-
url: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/common.nsf/V3HHBHome

Northern Territory Hansard Dec 1990-
url: http://www.nt.gov.au/lant/hansard/

Queensland Hansard 1990-
url: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/hansard/index.html

South Australian Hansard 1993-
url: http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/han/6_hansard.shtm

Tasmanian Hansard 1992-
url: http://www.hansard.parliament.tas.gov.au/

Victorian Hansard 1991-
url: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/hans.html

Western Australian Hansard August 2002-
url: http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/web/newwebparl.nsf/iframewebpages/Hansard+-+Daily+Transcripts

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Parliamentary Documents

Committee Reports | Hansards | Notice papers | Parliamentary papers and government reports

Committee Reports

Commonwealth

Committees of the 39th Parliament onwards (1998-)
Lists of Senate, House and Joint Committees, including membership, reports, and media releases.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/committee/committees_type.htm

Consolidated Register of Senate Committee Reports (March 1970-December 2002)
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/register/mar70_dec02/index.htm

State

For state reports, see the individual state parliamentary sites.

Hansards (Parliamentary Debates)

See Hansards section above

Notice papers

House of Representatives Notice Paper
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/info/notpaper/index.htm

Parliamentary papers and government reports

Commonwealth

Note - the items listed below are links to indexes, not to the full text of the reports.

Online Index to Parliamentary Papers (1992-)
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/parlpapers.htm

For individual years or sessions, see:
1996-1997-1998 (38th parliament),
1998-1999-2000-2001, (39th parliament)
2002-2003 (40th parliament).

To obtain the full text of many of these parliamentary reports, such as the annual reports of departments and agencies, you'll need to use the Australian Government Homepages listed by departments to locate the government department or agency and then find the report on that website. Parliamentary Committee reports are available via Parliament of Australia - Committees. Use the library's catalogue to check whether individual reports are held by the University of Sydney Library, or see the Parliamentary Papers collection at G.AUS/P on Floor 9 of Fisher Library.

State

NSW Parliamentary Committees Search May 1991-
url: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/committee.nsf/V3Home

NSW Legislative Assembly Tabled Paper Search 2002-
url: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/la/latabdoc.nsf/V3Home

Victorian Parliamentary Documents (Papers, Bills, Legislation etc)
url: http://www.dms.dpc.vic.gov.au/

See Also: State and Territory Government Sites In general, you will need to locate the website of the relevant state government agency to find their reports, even if the reports are tabled in the parliament. Use the state government home page to find the web sites of state agencies. Use the state parliamentary sites to find reports commissioned by the parliament, such as committee reports.

You can also use the Capital Monitor database to search for the web versions of state and commonwealth parliamentary papers.

See Also: In the news

Parliamentary Members

Current Parliamantary Information (Commonwealth)
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/parl/currinfo.htm

Commonwealth Parliament Who's Who
Very detailed site containing biographical information about parliamentarians.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/whoswho/index.htm

The Federal Ministry
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/parl/40/ministry/ministry.htm

The Federal Shadow Ministry
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/parl/40/shadow/

Members of the House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/index.htm

Senators of the Federal Parliament
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/senators/index.htm

For Biographical Information, See also the Quick Reference Guide: Politicians and Leaders

For State Government links, See also the Table of Government Sites

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Political Parties

The following sites should help you locate the party policies and related information. For more information on locating policy information, see Policies.

Liberal Party of Australia Home Page
Includes Federal Coalition policies and other information.
url: http://www.liberal.org.au/

ALP Home Page
Includes policy documents and election material.
url: http://www.alp.org.au/

The Greens
url: http://www.greens.org.au/

The Australian Democrats
url: http://www.democrats.org.au/

One Nation Party
url: http://www.onenation.com.au/

Full Listings:

List of registered political parties
Courtesy of the Australian Electoral Commission.
url: http://www.aec.gov.au/_content/who/party_reg/reg_parties.htm

Political Parties and Organisations
Courtesy of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/pol/polparti.htm

ComparePolicies.com.au
An easy way to compare the policies of canddates at the October 2004 federal election.
url: http://www.comparepolicies.com.au

See also:

Australian Political Party Documents
Very detailed Parliamentary website containing texts of paty documenmts as well as the parliamentary handbook, bills, debates, biographies, budget papers, procedural documents, press releases, media transcripts, policy documents, index to journal articles etc.
url: http://search.aph.gov.au/search/ParlInfo.ASP?action=browse
&Path=Library/Political+Party+Documents/Political+Party+Documents+by+Party&Start=1&1gb#top

Policies

Policy documents can be found:
- on the web sites of political parties,
- in the media releases of governments,
- and via parliamentary debates.
- Policies may also be reported in newspapers.

A comprehensive range of websites dealing with Australian social policy issues can be found at: Social Policy Internet Guide.

Statistics

The following are some of the main web sites for Australian statistics. If you are looking for Social Statistics, please see Social Statistics Internet Guide

Australian Bureau of Statistics Home Page
Check here for key national indicators, Australia in Brief, media releases, latest census and statistical data, etc.
url: http://www.abs.gov.au/

Australia Now - A Statistical Profile
Excellent range of up-to-date statistics about Australia, including lots of political information and figures.ef, media releases, latest census and statistical data, etc.
url: http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/ABS%40.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2!OpenView

AusStats
This new ABS Service is providing a wide range of ABS data such as Time Series, all ABS printed publications 1998+ in electronic format, and 1996 census data (Basic Community Profiles at Statistical Local Area level and above). It is available to University of Sydney staff and students only, who access the site via the University of Sydney network or use the University as their internet service provider. You need to have software such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, spreadsheet software (eg Excel, Lotus 123) and decompression software (eg WinZip) on your computer to view the data.
url: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats

Historical Publication Index
The Historical Publications Index lists the national published output of the ABS published between 1907 and 1993. State publications are not included.
url: http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/A3220106.nsf/d57894183e061d404b25616a0004bea7!OpenView

Monthly Economic and Social Indicators
Data and graphs provided by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/mesi/

The websites of many government departments and agencies sometimes give tables of statistical data. In particular, see:

Australian Government - Publications Register - Statistics
url: http://www.publications.gov.au/?statistics

Crime Statistics

Australian Institute of Criminology
url: http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/index.html

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
url: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/bocsar.nsf/pages/index

See also Australian Statistics in the University of Sydney Library Ready Reference guide.

Treaties

Australian Treaty List
Index of treaties to which Australia is signatory.
url: http://bar.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/


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