Government and Official Publications

This site provides links to government information of the Australian Capital Territory. It includes links to government departments and tourism and business information. The site also contains links to LAWnet (ACT legal information), the full text of the Legislative Assembly Hansard and budget papers as well as selected government reports.

This site provides information on the Asian Development Bank and its mission to reduce poverty in the Asia-Pacific region. It contains country and regional reports, press releases, statistical data and the full text of publications which the State Library of NSW receives on deposit in hard copy.

This site provides information about the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. It contains information about trade and policy areas, travel information (including travel warnings) and information about obtaining and replacing Australian passports.

This site provides information about Australia's electoral history, the results of past elections and how to enrol to vote. It also provides a list of frequently asked questions about elections and voting as well as a searchable index of electorates.

This site provides a directory of local, state and federal government organisations and departments.

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. Australian Public Affairs - Full Text is based on the journal indexing of the database Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), which is produced by the National Library of Australia and published by RMIT Publishing.

Of the 320,000+ records indexed from 2,000+ journals in APAIS, approximately half are derived from 223+ comprehensively indexed journals. The scanned images of journal articles in Australian Public Affairs - Full Text are sourced mostly from these comprehensively indexed journals. Images are provided in PDF format.

This online database contains the full text of Australian and New Zealand standards,as well as indexing standards from the International Standards Organization (ISO, British Standards and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) records. Search by Standard title, number, keywords or phrases.

Provides election results for state lower houses of parliament since 1890, and for Commonwealth Parliament since 1901. It also provides information about politicians and political parties and how they performed in elections. Produced by the University of Western Australia.

BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service) is a catalogue of British government publications for the period 1688 to 1995. BOPCRIS includes abstracts and detailed subject indexing of key documents, and a limited amount of full text content.

This site provides the full text of the most recent Federal Budget Papers and earlier papers back to 1996-97.

This site provides the full text of the NSW Budget Papers from the 1996-97 financial year to the present

This site provides an updated list for countries around the world, put together by the CIA.

Connecting NSW is one-stop-shop providing information on all NSW Government service.

The St. Thomas University School of Law (Miami, Florida, USA) utilizes specially developed proprietary software to monitor the global output of communiquis, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of diplomacy-related websites in near real-time and channel it into synthesized information streams within Diplomacy Monitor for scholars, diplomats, journalists, researchers, students and others interested in the interaction among nations.

This site provides links to a range of United Kingdom government sites, including those of local government authorities, town and parish councils as well as interactive maps, healthcare information including postal addresses for NHS hospitals and British university sites.

This site provides contact details of a number of foreign embassies in Australia.

This site allows you to find embassies around the world. You can search by host country or by country of origin

State government website for Emergency NSW. It details all types of emergency information such as: What to do in an emergency and the Sydney CBD evacuation plan. It also has a very comprehensive section describing historic emergencies in NSW. All notable floods, fires, transport accidents etc are listed and described.

Compiled by the New South Wales Parliamentary Library to provide answers to frequently asked questions about the parliament, its history and its members. Includes lists of Premiers, Leaders of the Opposition and state referenda.

Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST) is a free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public. FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The database contains information from research institutes around the world in areas such as international relations and security, armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.

Provides access to the archives for the London, Belfast and Edinburgh Gazettes. You can search the following archives: London Gazette: World War One and World War Two. Belfast Gazette: 1922-1999; Edinburgh Gazette: 1978-2001. A search by keyword or name will bring up a digitized copy of the original entry. Produced by TSO (The Stationery Office) for Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

A guide to selected types of Australian Government publications, such as acts, Hansards, gazettes and parliamentary papers located in Australia's national, state and territory libraries or available on the Internet. A historical description of each publication is provided, with holdings information to locate resources in each library or online.

This site provides links to Western Australian Government information. It includes links to government agency and local government sites and information about the ministry, tourism and business in Western Australia. The site also includes a listing of job vacancies in the public sector.

This site provides a list of Governors-General of Australia since the inception of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.

This State Library of NSW project for the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW (1856-2006) provides an online guide to the personal papers of NSW MPs that are held by the Mitchell Library - from the first NSW Parliament after Responsible Government (which first sat on 22 May 1856) through to the present.

The guide describes the personal papers of: (a) 202 individual parliamentarians, comprising 197 males and 5 females; (b) 21 Premiers of NSW; (c) 11 State parliamentarians who were also elected to the Federal Parliament; (d) 3 Prime Ministers of Australia; and (e) 1 Governor General of Australia.

You can search by name, date and political party and search results include biographical notes, portraits and links to the State Library's manuscript catalogue and parliamentary service details on the NSW Parliament's website.

Collections listed in the Guide may include papers, photographs, printed material, newspaper cuttings, ephemera, audio tapes, video tapes and realia. The Mitchell Library pictures collection includes an extensive collection of NSW MP portraits, many of which have been digitised for inclusion in the Guide. Some papers of political parties and related organisations are held by the Mitchell Library but these are not described in this Guide.

Official - as opposed to personal - MP records generated by the NSW Government are held by State Records NSW. See Records of a NSW Ministers' Office.

This site provides access to the Senate Hansard, the House of Representatives Hansard and Senate, House of Representatives and Joint Committee transcripts.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) contains House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to present session, with supplementary material back to 1688.

This site provides information about the work of the commission. It contains information about disability rights, sex discrimination, human rights, racial discrimination and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice. It also provides information about how to lodge a complaint.

Parliamentary papers are documents and papers tabled in the Commonwealth Parliament, such as reports, returns and statements from departments and authorities, committees of inquiry and royal commissions.

LexisNexis Statistical contains abstracts of statistical publications from 1980 to the present and the full text of selected publications from 1995 forward. It indexes documents produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organisations, professional and trade organisations, commercial publishers, independent research organisations, state government agencies, and universities.

Check current and historical results for NSW lotteries, Lotto, Powerball etc

This site provides biographical information about current members of the NSW Ministry.

This site provides information such as local government annual reports, standards, acts and regulations, publications, council maps and positions vacant.

This site provides access to the current issue of the NSW Government gazette as well as quarterly indexes from October 2000 onwards. The gazette is in PDF format and in Microsoft Word format. The latest issue is available from 2 pm every Friday.

This site provides links to NSW government information. It includes links to media releases, individual government agencies, Olympics information, NSW tourism and rural information.

This site allows you to interactively practice online for the Driver Knowledge Test.

This site allows you to search for unclaimed money held by the NSW Office of State Revenue from 1996 onwards. Unclaimed money can include interest, dividends and savings, and superannuation benefits deposited by employers, government agencies, local councils and other sources.

This site provides links to Northern Territory Government information. It includes information about the parliament, ministry, tourism and business.

This site provides information about the Australian Federal Parliament. The site contains over 700 000 parliamentary documents including bills, explanatory memoranda, and votes and proceedings.

This site provides links to information about the Australian Federal Parliament. It provides links to current and historical parliamentary information, an index of the library's publications, and links to ‘hot topics’ and an Internet links guide.

This site provides access to a wide range of information about the structure, role and functions of the Parliament of New South Wales as well as full lists of current members, ministers and shadow ministers. The site also provides access to Hansard in PDF format.

A gateway to political websites around the world. Arranged by country and divided further into governments, political parties and media.

This site provides links to political parties and other political organisations around the world.

The Publications Register provides access to a range of resources on Australian Government publications. It is possible to search or browse government agency listings for publication information or follow links to existing online publication resources.

Biographical information on 700 women who have stood for Parliament in New South Wales. Produced by the Australian Women's Archives Project

This site provides links to Queensland Government information. It includes a complete list of government departments and agencies as well as links to resources and business information.

A list of all Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry appointed by the Australian Government from 1902, under the provisions of the Royal Commissions Act 1902. Does not include Royal Commissions appointed by Australian state or territory governments, unless the Australian Government was also involved. Where applicable, provides the location of each report in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Papers Series, which is held at major libraries.

Lists of heads of state and heads of government, and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions, of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700. Also included are the subdivisions of various countries, as well as a selection of international organisations. Recent foreign ministers of all countries are listed separately.

This site provides community, commercial and government information for South Australia. It includes links to state and local government information, government directories and provides facts and figures for South Australia.

This site provides a searchable database to bills, Hansard, select committee reports and more, from the United Kingdom.

Contains bibliographic citations to UN documents and publications originating from UN bodies world wide. The database also contains bibliographic citations to monographs, serials, journal articles and publications of governments, international organisations, commercial publishers and other non-UN sources acquired by the Dag Hammarskjold Library or the Library of the UN Office at Geneva.

Since 1999 the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has administered money transferred to the Commonwealth from unclaimed bank accounts, life insurance policies, and shares in companies. This ASIC website includes the Treasury publication Do we have any of your money?, listing money transferred from bank accounts which have not been used for seven years. The years from 1989 to 1999 are available to search online. Also on this site, the ASIC gazette lists unclaimed money transferred since 1999.

This online database contains all United Nations parliamentary documents including resolutions and decisions issued at the UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. It also includes documents from a number of UN agencies such as United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

This online database contains five categories of treaty related documents. They are the Status of Multicultural Treaties Deposited with the Secretary- General, the United Nations Treaty Series, the texts of recently deposited Multilateral Treaties, photographs of Treaty Signature Ceremonies and Titles of the Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary- General in the UN official languages.

This site provides searchable databases of US Government publications. It includes the current United States Government manual.

State Library of Victoria website providing pdf images of every page of every gazette and government notice relevant to the State of Victoria produced since 1836 as well as searchable indexes for each publication. These include: (1) New South Wales Government Gazette 1836 - 1851; (2) Port Phillip Government Notices January - 12 July 1843; (3) Port Phillip Government Gazette January 1844 - July 1851; and (4) Victoria Government Gazette July 1851 - 1997.

Government gazettes contain information about land transactions, court notices, government appointments, bankruptcies, proclamation of acts, deregistration of medical practitioners, statistics, tenders, unclaimed letters and monies, reward notices, and more.

Before Victoria separated from NSW in 1851 government notices, regulations, forms and orders relating to the Port Phillip District were published initially in the NSW Government Gazette, then the Port Phillip Government Notices, and later in the Port Phillip Government Gazette (from 1843).

The first issue of the Victoria Government Gazette was published on 9 July 1851. Early issues were published once a week until 1854, when two issues a week were produced. By the 20th century the frequency was almost daily, increasing to as many as nine or ten issues in a day. In 1987 the gazettes were split and published in three series: General, Periodical and Special.

No copies are known to exist for the period 19 July-December 1843. Gazette information for this period may be in the Port Phillip Herald newspaper (held by the State Library of NSW) under the 'Melbourne Government Gazette' column.

This site provides links to Victorian Government information. It includes links to information about the Victorian Parliament and the Victorian state and local governments. The site also includes the full text of Victorian Hansard since 1991.

A guide to Federal Government information and services for individuals and businesses. The site is designed to direct customers to all government departments relevant to their topic of interest. All known web sites funded by the Commonwealth Federal Government are indexed.

An educational site about Australian politics, democracy, elections, parliament and the Constitution. Run by secondary school teacher Malcolm Farnsworth.

An online catalogue of publications offered by the NSW Government for purchase or free download.