Finding policy and legal sources
Finding policy information
- Analysis and Policy ObservatoryAPO is a not-for-profit, open access knowledge and evidence base to discover, share and manage public policy and practice resources.
- Excellent source of stable, persistent links to a growing number of Australian policy documents and commentaries, research and other analyses
- Access policy documents, commentaries (including some journal articles) and research papers from many different areas of government
- You can search, but the best way to find reports is to browse by collections or topics and then filter by different facets (such as additional topics, sources, resource types and metrics)
- Capital MonitorThis database provides parliamentary, political, legislative, regulatory and judicial news and information. It is useful for searching any information published by the federal or state governments in Australia.
- Google Advanced SearchGoogle Advanced Search allows you to limit your search by domain (ie .gov.au) or use more sophisticated search strategies than the standard Google search.
- Australian Institute of Criminology - StatisticsAlso look under the "Publications" heading for biennial statistical reports and shorter statistical bulletins on areas of interest.
Finding legal information
Use the Law Guides to access key primary sources for law. More information is available at the following links:
- Cases (Law Guides)Help with finding cases, case citators, and online case report series.
- Legislation (Law Guides)Help with using the authorised databases to find legislation.
- Parliamentary documents (Law Guides)Find bills, explanatory memoranda and links to Hansard (the record of parliament).
- Areas of Law (Law Guides)For resources around particular fields of law