Useful Websites

Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting and debate on global environmental issues. It features original articles by scientists, journalists, environmentalists, academics, policy makers and business people, as well as multi media content.

This free online dictionary brings the wealth of information contained in The Australian National Dictionary within easy reach. Use the search bar or the index at the top of the page to find detailed entries of words from the Australian English vocabulary.

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Links to the individual Australian States and Territory legislation websites.

Queensland Legislation
Northern Territory Legislation
New South Wales Legislation
South Australian Legislation
Tasmanian Legislation
Victorian Legislation
Western Australian Legislation

The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's official statistical organisation. It assists and encourages informed decision making, research and discussion within governments and the community, by providing a high quality, objective and responsive national statistical service.

To access the Australian Bureau of Statistics click here

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is a collaborative website that pulls together Australian biodiversity data from multiple sources, making it accessible and reusable.

The ALA helps to create a more detailed picture of Australia’s biodiversity for scientists, policy makers, environmental planners and land managers, industry and the general public, and enables them to work more efficiently.

This website by the National Archives of Australia has extensive information on migration to Australia including images taken by the Department of Immigration to promote the government's migration and settlement activities 1946 to 1999. During these years government photographers snapped 22,000 images of people arriving and living in Australia.

ParlInfo allows you to search and find Australian Parliamentary information. This includes hansards, bills, committee reports, media publications, Parliamentary Handbook and a whole lot more.

The Flora of Australia is designed for use by anyone wanting authoritative information on the names, characteristics, distribution and habitat of native and naturalised vascular plants in Australia.

YouTube has a video library that has a lot of copyright free stuff on it including free music and sound effects. Great for projects, presentations etc.

The library can be found here

This website is about recent Royal Commissions in Australia. The site provides an overview of what a Royal Commission is, how and when one is established as well as information about current Royal Commissions. Together with reports produced by Royal Commissions as well as a link to a list of all Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry appointed by the Australian Government from 1902 onwards.

The Australian Dictionary of Biography is a dictionary of national biography. In it you will find concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history.

Links below are to individual State and Territory Legislation information:

ACT Legislation Register
NSW Legislation
Northern Territory Legislation
South Australian Legislation
Victorian Legislation
Tasmanian Legislation
Western Australian Legislation

Below are some links to useful websites and databases to legal research tools:

Australasian Legal Information Institute : Case Law from the most superior Australian courts and tribunals as well as current and past Federal, State and Territory Legislation.

ComLaw : Federal Register of Legislation is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents.

Lawyers Weekly : Lawyers Weekly is an authoritative source of independent news, analysis and opinion about the practice of law in Australia.

Listed below are a range of ABC websites that may be useful. Don't forget to refer to your assignment to see what type of resources are required (scholarly, peer-reviewed, popular) etc.

ABC Business
ABC Rural
Koori Mail
ABC Health and Wellbeing
The Age
The Australian
Sydney Morning Herald
Courier Mail