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Australasian Parliamentary Counsel's Committee

Website of the Australasian Parliamentary Counsel's Committee (PCC), a discussion forum for the development of legislation. The PCC consists of the heads of the offices of Parliamentary Counsel for the Australian Commonwealth, the States, the ACT, the Northern Territory and New Zealand. PCC publications on national uniform legislation and a list of harmonised laws are available on the site, together with a page of links to sites providing legislation for common law jurisdictions. Parts of the site are password-protected. 

Queensland Law

The Queensland Law Collection provides free access to digitised legal materials including historical Queensland legislation and materials that were previously offered by Ozcase, a web collaboration project that finished in 2018.

Foolkit: the free legal toolkit

Foolkit is a free guide to Australian legal resources compiled by Australian lawyer Andrew Rogers and aimed at practitioners and the public. For lawyers the site has sections providing links to key resources for each Australian state including legislation, court rules and cause lists, management resources and resources arranged by legal topic eg. family, business, criminal and employment law. Pages aimed at the public provide information on issues such as finding a lawyer, accessing legal aid and a guide to the legal system.

Australian Treaties Database

Official database of Australian treaty information, giving the status of each treaty, its Australian Treaty Series citation and other details, plus a link to the text on the AustLII website. The database homepage also provides information about the treaty-making process, status lists for multilateral treaties deposited with the Government of Australia and other treaty-related information. The database is produced by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission

An AustLII database containing decisions from the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission from 1991 to 2016. Decisions are in full-text HTML format and can be searched or browsed by case name or date. Decisions from 2017 onwards are provided on the Western Industrial Relations Commission page on AustLII. AustLII, the Australasian Legal Information Institute is a collaborative public service developed by the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales to provide free internet access to legislation and cases for Australia.

Western Australian Current Acts

An AustLII database featuring current legislation of the State of Western Australia. The system offers a comprehensive search facility and alphabetical browse list. AustLII, the Australasian Legal Information Institute is a collaborative public service developed by the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales to provide free Internet access to legislation and cases for Australia.

Norfolk Island Regional Council

Website of the Norfolk Island Regional Council the body set up to replace the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly (under which the Island was self-governed) in 2016. Norfolk Island is an external Australian territory in the Pacific ocean with most Australian Commonwealth laws including taxation, social security, immigration, biosecurity, customs and health covering the Island. The Council provides a range of local services including broadcasting, courts and legal services, planning and development and registry of land, companies, births, deaths and marriages.

Queensland Reports

Website of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for the State of Queensland (ICLRQ). The ICLRQ publish the Queensland Reports and provide information about this subscription publication on the site. A number of free resources are also available including the Queensland Law Reporter (QLR) which is available online back to 2012. ICLRQ offer a Key Decisions Database providing summaries of key recent judgments of the Supreme Court of Queensland prior to their publication in the Queensland Reports. The judgements are arranged by subject and include a link to the full judgement.

Queensland Caselaw

Caselaw is a database of the Supreme Court Library Queensland providing free access to decisions of the Queensland Courts and Tribunals. All judgements of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court Criminal Division (from 2000 onwards) appear on the site and selected judgements from the District Court, Magistrates Court, Children’s Court and others are available. Decisions can be searched or browsed by individual court or across the whole database and downloaded in full.

Parliament of Australia: Parliamentary Library

Website of the Australian Parliamentary Library which is part of the Department of Parliamentary Services. The Library supports the work of the Australian Parliament and provides services to “senators, members, their staff, the staff of parliamentary departments and the Governor-General”. The Library produce Bills Digests to provide background information and highlight the purpose of the bill and key issues for members. Bills Digests can be searched or browsed and read in full on the site.

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