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IP Australia

IP Australia is the government agency responsible for granting rights in patents, trademarks and designs in Australia. Its website explains the agency's work and gives guidance on Australian intellectual property rights and regulation. It provides searchable databases giving details of existing IP rights; journals relating to trademarks, patents and designs; official notices; manuals; Australian Federal intellectual property legislation; official forms; and trade mark decisions. An International section includes information about IP in China and Japan, treaties and other resources,

Administrative Appeals Tribunal

Web pages of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Australia. The Tribunal provides independent review of a wide range of administrative decisions made by the Australian Commonwealth Government and some non-governmental organisations. It provides services both to individuals and to government agencies. The site presents basic information about the Tribunal: its corporate plan, and a glossary of administrative law terms in plain English. The most recent decisions of the Tribunal are presented in full-text (HTML), and there is a link to the archive of decisions available via AUSTLII.

World Law: Australia

Part of WorldLII's Countries service containing links to internet resources for Australia. A full range of browse and search features are provided by the site. Browse sections include links covering each of Australia's jurisdictions and a subject index. Additional sections highlight areas such as Community legal information, Courts and Tribunals, Education, Governments, Law Journals, Law Libraries, Law Reform, Lawyers and Legal Services, Legislation, Non-Government Organisations, Parliaments, Publishers and Bookshops and Research.

GayLawNet

Australian website providing information, news and resources concerning the law as it affects gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender and intersex people around the world. Includes details of laws relating to children, discrimination, inheritance, partnership, property, sexual offences, superannuation and other topics in various jurisdictions around the world. There are also links to legislation, cases and news reports, some of which require subscription access.

High Court of Australia

Website of the Australian High Court. The site provides summaries of new judgments, available on the day of the judgment; users can subscribe to these via RSS or email. The written submissions by the parties to a case are also available. The site provides a monthly bulletin which includes lists of pending cases, cases reserved for judgment, cases granted special leave to appeal and so on. Rules, forms and practice directions are available to download and there is a link to full text judgmnets of the Court on AustLII.

Documenting a Democracy: Australia's Story

A key resource for political historians. This site has been created by the National Archives of Australia to provide access to over 100 documents which trace the development of democratic government in Australia. It includes the full-text of sets of constitutional documents, from each of the eight states, land laws and civil rights legislation recognising the rights of the indigenous Aborigine peoples. Also provided is a timeline of Australian constitutional history and a glossary of key terms.

Australian Treaties Library

The Australian Treaties Library is a free AustLII database containing treaties involving Australia, with status information. It includes the Australian Treaty Series (1900 - ); Australian Treaty National Interest Analyses (1996- ); Australian Minor Treaty Actions - Explanatory Statements (2012- ); Australian treaties not yet in force (1980- ); and reports of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (1996- ). Documents can be browsed by year or title and there is a search facility.

Supreme Court of Tasmania Decisions

Decisions of the Supreme Court of Tasmania made freely available on the AustLII website. This AustLII database contains full-text decisions from 1987 onwards as selected and provided by the Supreme Court of Tasmania. Decisions can be browsed by date or name and searched using the AustLII search engine. AustLII, the Australasian Legal Information Institute has been developed by the University of Technology in Sydney.

Federal Court of Australia Judgments

Official website developed by the Federal Court of Australia containing the full-text of judgments or decisions of the Federal Court of Australia (from 1977) and courts and tribunals administered by the Federal Court including the Industrial Relations Court of Australia (from 1994), the Australian Competition Tribunal (from 1997), the Copyright Tribunal (from 1997), the Defence Force Discipline Appeals Tribunal (from 1999) and the Federal Police Disciplinary Tribunal (1999).

Queensland Legislation

Official website developed by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Council providing full text access to Queensland legislation. The site includes acts and their subordinate legislation as currently in force, acts as originally enacted and subordinate legislation as originally made back to 1991 and bills as originally introduced into Parliament. Repealed legislaton can be browsed alphabetically. There is help with searching and guidance on the use of annotations. All the legislation is searchable by keyword.

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