Australian Official Publications

Australian Official Publications
Author: Howard Coxon
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-06-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483146901

Australian Official Publications is a six-part book that begins with a separate chapter on the framework of Australian government. Part I then describes the main features of the commonwealth parliament. Part II details the commonwealth government departments and statutory authorities. Parts III and IV elucidate the distribution and availability of Australian official publications and the main forms of official publishing in each State of Australia. Part V discusses the internal territories of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. The last part contains the bibliography of Australian official publications. This book will be helpful to general readers to understand the system of government which prevails and something of the working of its organs.

From the Hustings to Harbour Views

From the Hustings to Harbour Views
Author: Marian Simms
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780868409405

'Easy to enrol, easy to vot' was the solgan devised by the New South Wales electoral office in the 1980s. How did this system evolve from a British based model to a distinctively Australian one?

Concise Legal Research

Concise Legal Research
Author: Robert Watt
Publisher: Federation Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781862877238

Concise Legal Research details the technical aspects of a huge number of legal sources and explains how to research law with confidence and in good time.This new edition focuses on the impact of online access and the need for the researcher to move seamlessly between traditional and electronic resources. All strategies that have been created to incorporate hard copy researching techniques have been updated with alternate electronic methods.Particular attention has been paid to the chapter on secondary sources, and with the maintenance of a structured approach to research, recognises that online research - with its many inherent pitfalls - must carefully fit within rules of research required by the discipline.