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Anti-Discrimination Tribunal Queensland

An AustLII web database, containing selected decisions from the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal. The database contains full-text decisions in HTML format from 1992 until 2009. Comprehensive search facilities, alphabetical browse index, and list of recent cases are available. AustLII, the Australasian Legal Information Institute has been developed by the University of Technology in Sydney to provide public access to primary legal materials.

PANDORA: Australia's web archive: law & regulation

Law and Regulation section of Australia’s web archive, PANDORA. Provides a collection of hundreds of archived websites and resources on the subject of law and regulation, including Australian government websites (both federal and provincial) and the Australian Bar Association website, as well as individual official reports, collections of legislation and other publications. Each archived site or publication in the Law and Regulation section of PANDORAis listed in alphabetical order.

Legal Abbreviations

Extensive list of abbreviations for law reports, law journals, courts, government departments, international organisations and so on, provided by Monash University Library, Australia. Covers Australia and other common law jurisdictions and public international law; also has key abbreviations from civil law jurisdictions.

JADE

JADE (Judgments and Decisions Enhanced) is a free service produced by a group of Sydney barristers. It provides a searchable and browseable collection of Australian court and tribunal decisions and aims for comprehensive coverage of new cases. There is also a case citator called ‘CaseTrace’. Cases can be bookmarked and annotated, and RSS or email alerts are available for new cases.

Australasian Colonial Legal History Library

This freely available online service includes databases of Australasian legal history accessible via AustLII. In addition to pre-1900 primary legislation and case materials from New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia, the Library features articles from law journals and legal scholarship concerning the Colonial Period. The Library is being developed by AustLII in collaboration with NZLII as part of an ARC funded infrastructure (LIEF) grant entitled "The Australasian Legal History Library".

Parliament of Australia

The Australian Parliament website has information from the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Parliamentary Library. The documents available include bills, parliamentary debates, standing and sessional orders and a full list of members of both houses. The Information and Research section contains historical lists of members of parliament, governors and prime ministers; election results; factsheets; and procedural guides. The Publications page includes, among other things, an index to parliamentary papers from 1992 onwards.

Australian Government: Department of Immigration and Citizenship

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship is the Australian government body which handles issues relating to immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Australia. Its website gives an overview of the work of the department as well as providing the full-text of its most recent press releases and annual report. Also available is information on Australian government policy towards immigrants, including transcripts of speeches relating to migration made by the Minister for Immigration and details of aid programmes offered to new immigrants/refugees.

Prime Minister of Australia

This is the official website of the Prime Minister of Australia. It provides access to a biography and news relating to the work of the current office holder. This includes access to recent press releases, policy statements and speeches covering all aspects of Australian political, social, economic and foreign policy. Links are provided to other Australian government websites.

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