AUSTRALIA

Australian Cases  |  Australian Case Law Citators  |  Australian Legislation  |  Australian Law Journals

Australian Legal Dictionaries, Encyclopedia & Commentary  |  Selected Australian Internet Resources

 AUSTRALIAN CASES - LIBRARY DATABASES 

• Australian Corporation and Securities Reports - from 1 1989; also includes Australian Company  Law Reports, from 1 1975
• Family Law Reports - from 1 1976
• Intellectual Property Reports - from 1 1862
• New South Wales Law Reports - from 1 1971
• Queensland Reports - from 1980
• Queensland Planning and Environmental Law Reports - from 1982
• Queensland Land Court Reports - from 1 1973
• Queensland Crown Land Law Reports - from 1 1864
• Victorian Law Reports - from 1975

• Similar holdings to LexisNexis NZ, but also including Australian Law Reports, from 1973 (Volume 1); Motor Vehicle Reports, from 1983 (Volume 1); and Unreported Judgments from the ACT Supreme Court, Australian Federal Court, Australian High Court, New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria

• Good coverage of authorised case reports and unreported judgments from Australian courts
• Unique coverage of Commonwealth Law Reports - from 1 1903; officially reported documents from the South Australian Supreme Court, Unreported Judgments from the Supreme Courts of South Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia; Australian Tax Reports - from 1 1970; and Local Government and Environment Reports

• ACT Supreme Court  - for Court of Appeal judgments
• AUSTLII - for Commonwealth, State and Territory case law
• Federal Court of Australia eSearch - online case information system - contains selected information on cases initiated in the Federal Court of Australia and in the federal law jurisdiction of the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia

AUSTRALIAN CASE LAW CITATORS

• CaseBase (in LexisNexis NZ) - comprehensive coverage of more than 60 Australian and overseas report series and the unreported decisions of the High Court, the Federal Court and the Supreme Courts of all Australian states and territories and other selected jurisdictions.  Is also an excellent bibliographic reference, with digested and annotated journal article entries covering over 100 Australian and overseas legal journals
• Westlaw KeyCite  - under the Westlaw Australia tab - a citation research service for Australian cases reported from 1825 onwards

• Australian Case Citator and Australian and New Zealand Citator to UK Reports  Davis Law Library Level 2 Stack 4A

AUSTRALIAN LEGISLATION 

• Australian Capital Territory Legislation Register - authorised electronic statute book that provides access to ACT legislation and related information
• Current Northern Territory Legislation Database - a project of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, the Legislative Assembly, the Department of Justice and the Department of the Chief Minister
• Government of New South Wales Legislation Homepage - produced by the Parliamentary Counsel's Office
• Lawlex - subscription database but allows free searching and browsing of principal legislation
• Queensland Legislation - produced by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel
• South Australian Legislation - produced by the Attorney-General's Department
• Tasmanian Legislation - consolidated legislation online, produced by the Department of Premier and Cabinet
• Victorian Legislation and Documents - produced by the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel
• Western Australian Legislation - produced by the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, State Law Publisher

• COMLAW (Commonwealth of Australia Law) - from 2005 SCALEPLUS is being replaced by COMLAW  incorporating the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI)
• SCALEplus - the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney-General's Department.  Contains legislation of the Commonwealth and non self-governing Territories.  Note - no new information added since 2005
• AUSTLII 
• Index to Explanatory Memoranda 1901-82 by the Parliamentary Library, Canberra
• Parliament of Australia Parlinfo Search search Australian Parliamentary information resources including Hansards, Senate Journals, Votes and Proceedings, Notice Papers, Committee reports, Parliamentary Handbook, newspaper clippings and much more. The Bills homepage contains information about whether bills are before the House of Representatives or the Senate, the progress of bills and links to the text and related documents.

AUSTRALIAN LAW JOURNALS 

• AGIS Plus Text - from 1975 - Attorney General's Information Service, Canberra.  Indexes Australia, NZ and Pacific law journals, with many articles full text
• Brookers Online - provides access to selected fulltext Australian journals
• CaseBase (in LexisNexis NZ)- comprehensive coverage of more than 60 Australian and overseas report series and the unreported decisions of the High Court, the Federal Court and the Supreme Courts of all Australian states and territories and other selected jurisdictions.  Is also an excellent bibliographic reference, with digested and annotated journal article entries covering over 100 Australian and overseas legal journals
• Lexis.com - explore Find Laws by Country or Region > Australia > Journals 
• Westlaw - explore Directory > International/Worldwide Materials > Asia and the Pacific Rim > Individual Country Materials > Australia > Law Reviews, Bar Journals and Legal Periodicals tab

• AUSTLII - Journals 
• Bond Law Review - from vol.7(1) 1995 
• Native Titles Newsletter, from 1996, from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Native Title Hot Spots Newsletter - from 2001, from the National Native Title Tribunal
• Reform - from the Australian Law Reform Commission, past issues fulltext online 
• QUT Law & Justice Journal - from vol.1(1) 2001, from Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Law

AUSTRALIAN LEGAL DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIA & COMMENTARY 

• Halsbury's Laws of Australia
• Australian Law Dictionary (via Oxford Reference Online. Select 'Law')
• Expert Evidence by Ian Freckelton and Hugh Selby.North Ryde, N.S.W. : Law Book Co. 

SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES 

• AUSTLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute
• ComLaw - database of Australian Government legislation
• FindLaw Australia - a free legal information service for legal professionals, students and business people
• Foolkit - information on both the State and Federal legal systems, sorted by Jurisdiction and topic. 
• PANDORA (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia) - Australia's web archive of online publications.  A collaborative project involving the National Library of Australia and selected Australian libraries  
• WebLaw - a Subject Gateway to Australian Legal Resources

• Australia's Legal System - produced by the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department
• Australian Law Reform Commission  - publications
• Common Law Abroad  - a Law Libraries Microform Consortium project, including an Australasian bibliography of constitutional, legal, and law-related research materials  
• Federal Court of Australia -  Legal Research Links - a very comprehensive list 
• LLRX.com - Comparative and Foreign Law Guides - Australia
• LLRX.com - Researching Australian Law

• Australian Government  - Information and Services
• National Native Title Tribunal (publications, library provides an introductory reading list, full text judgments and legislation, and an index of journal articles)
• Parliament of Australia
• Parliament of Australia - Hansard - the transcripts of Parliamentary proceedings
• Parliament of Australia - Library  - some publications are full text online

• Australian Capital Territory Government
• New South Wales Government
• Northern Territory Government
• Queensland Government
• South Australia Government
• Tasmania Government
• Victoria Government
• Western Australia Government

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Last Updated: 3 May 2011