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Oxford Dictionary of Law: "Ideal for anyone without a legal qualification who comes into contact with the law in the UK or any Commonwealth country where the legal system is founded on English law. Entries define and explain the major terms, concepts, processes, and organization of the law. "

AGIS plus text: "Comprehensively indexes and abstracts articles from over 100 Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals. Selectively indexes and abstracts articles from major law journals from United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Full text coverage begins from 1999."
AustLII: Australian Legal Information Institute: "Austlii provides free internet access to Australasian legal material. This includes primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals); and secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access."
CCH Australia: "A collection of resources in the areas of employment, law, OH&S, tax & accounting."
LegalTrac: "American: incorporating highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac® provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals, also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles."
National Guide to Government Live: Links to all Departments of the Australian Government
Australian Federal Police Digest: "Australian Federal Police Digest is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on policing, criminology, law enforcement and related fields."

Australian Law Online: "Provides ready access to clear, understandable, user-friendly information about the Australian legal system and the government organisations that are part of the Australian legal system."
Australian Government Law Sites: "Links to Australian government law sites, including courts and tribunals, legislation, case law and commonwealth, state and territory Attorneys-General departments."
Curriculum Corporation: Discovering Democracy: "Contains the complete text of A Guide to Government and Law in Australia by Dr John Hirst; an exploration of the history, structure and operations of Australian democracy with a concise description of the operations of the Australian system of government and law."
Australian Government Attorney-Generals Department: Australia's Legal & Justice System: An overview of Australia's Legal System.
High Court of Australia
Federal Court of Australia

Law Council of Australia: "The Law Council of Australia advises governments, courts and other federal agencies on ways in which the law and the justice system can be improved for the benefit of the community."
The Australasian Political Studies Association: The Australasian professional association of those teaching and researching in political science and related disciplines.

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