UC Library Guides: Law: Find Legislation

Australian Legislation

Federal Register of Legislation This link opens in a new window
Authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents. It contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them. This website incorporates all content previously published on ComLaw.

Lexis+ (Formerly Lexis Advance) This link opens in a new window
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Lexis+ is the new version of Lexis Advance, incorporating intuitive and powerful AI-features. It is a platform for Australian and New Zealand law material. Includes Halsbury's Laws of Australia, CaseBase, Australian Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents and LawNow Legislation.

AUSTLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute) This link opens in a new window
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Legislation, court decisions and legal resources.
Free resource.

Capital Monitor (LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
News and information services related to governing Australia. It includes information from Parliament, Government and the Courts, such as press releases, statements, transcripts, reports, legislation, tabled papers, treaties, gazettes, High Court judgments, decisions of the Federal Court and the AAT, and more.

Jade This link opens in a new window
Free legal database that collects the recent decisions of selected Australian Courts and Tribunals. Current law students may register for a free premium subscription.

Australian Constitution & Federation (through National Archives of Australia)
The Constitution (Federal Register of Legislation.)
Browse Bills Digests (Parliament of Australia)
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (U.K.) (Museum of Australian Democracy))
Australian Government. Office of Parliamentary Counsel - Legislation
Links to other sites that contain the text of Commonwealth Acts and Bills.
Parliament of Australia. Hansard.
The Hansard is the report of the proceedings of the Australian parliament and its committees. This includes the Senate, House of Representatives, the Federation Chamber and all parliamentary committees.
Legify
Legify helps you find the authoritative (or as close to authoritative as possible) version of almost 14,000 Australian Acts and Regulations, instantly and direct from the legislative publishers of the Commonwealth, States and Territories.

To find relevant legislation on a topic, start with secondary materials

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WorldLII This link opens in a new window
Find courts and case law by country, as well as International courts and tribunals. Free website.

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