Australasian
Legal Information Institute
Access to a wide range of material related to Australian law,
including searchable Australian law databases.
Among these databases is the full text of the Commonwealth
Consolidated Acts; researchers can browse
by the name of the act or choose from a variety of keyword search
methods. The site also includes the full text of many important documents,
including the reports of the Royal
Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Bringing
Them Home, the report of the National Inquiry into the Separation
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. |
Parliament
of Australia
Information about the two houses of Parliament, the Senate and the House of Representatives; information
about members and officers of Parliament;
an index to and full text of bills
since 1996; and the full text of Parliamentary floor
debates (the Hansard) going back to 1996, searchable
by keyword or browsable by date. The Parliamentary Library website
provides historical information
about the Parliament going back to 1901 and the full text of
the latest edition of the Parliamentary
Handbook. |
Commonwealth
of Australia Law (ComLaw)
From the Australian Attorney
General's Department, a searchable database of current
(2005 to present) and some historical acts, bills, and other
legislative instruments. Information from the ScalePlus databases
are gradually being migrated to ComLaw. |
ScalePlus (Australian
Attorney-General's Department)
Free searchable database of Commonwealth bills (1998-2005), treaties in force
up to 1998, Federal and state acts and regulations (current and some retrospective),
selected Federal and state case law, and regulations for selected Commonwealth
dependencies. More current information is available on ComLaw, which is
gradually superseding ScalePlus. |
Commonwealth
of Australia (Law Library of Congress)
Collection of links to Australian government and legal sites, maintained by the Law
Library of Congress. |
Commonwealth
of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (Parliament of Australia)
Full text of the British parliamentary act establishing the Commonwealth of Australia
in 1900, which functions in essence as the country’s constitution. |