Databases

• Australia New Zealand Reference Centre combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
• Australian Public Affairs Full Text contains articles articles on Australian political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs.
• Electric Library contains articles from newspapers, journals, magazines and other sources. Includes Australian newspapers published by News Limited including The Australian and Herald-Sun.
• Factiva provides full text content from newswires, business journals, market research reports, and newspapers including major Australian newspapers.
• ParlInfo - Search Parliamentary Document Repository. ParlInfo contains over one million documents relating to the work of the Australian Parliament.
• Parliamentary Papers -Index to Parliamentary papers (1992-)
• Victorian Government Publications Index lists all Victorian state and local government publications received by the State Library of Victoria since1987

Australian Government

• Australian Electoral Commission
• Australian Federal Government home page
• Australian Government & Politics a database of parties, elections, governments and representation for state and federal parliaments since 1890. Uni of WA.
• Australian Government Information National Library of Australia
• Fedinfo - access to key Commonwealth government documents
• GOLD - Government On-Line Directory Search for Commonwealth departments, agencies, statutory authorities, people
• Parliament of Australia
• www.gov.au - Government portal providing access to information and services of Federal, State, Territory and Local governments.

Victorian Government

• Victorian government entry point
• www.gov.au - Government portal gateway to federal, state and territory governments plus government agencies and local governments for most states

Local Government

• Local Government Information Services, Department for Victorian communities
• EZgov- local government - provides an index to all the local governments in Australia

Overseas Governments

• Governments on the WWW
• Government Topics - Librarians' Index. Also includes a list of international (ie, non-US) government sites
• National Government and International Affairs Resources - WWW Virtual Library

Author: Nancy Seeger & Susan Roberts (nseeger@swin.edu.au)