Media and Communications: Journalist's Toolkit

U.S. Department of State Country Relations Fact Sheets

WDI Online provides access to statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data and includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators

Central Intelligence Agency provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World

Australian Government: Geoscience Australia

University of Texas. Includes a large collection of freely available online maps.

Worldwide NGO Directory

Northwestern University Library extensive map collection is complemented by geospatial services supporting the use of GIS software for data analysis and visualization.

View export market profiles by country.

View an economy profile + ease of doing business for each country.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

International Monetary Fund

Guides are written by US Embassy trade experts worldwide.

Produced for US policymakers. Each country profile covers: geography; people and society; government; economy; energy; communications; transportation; military and security; and transnational issues.

Access a country risk assessment via the left-hand menu of each profile page.

The ABCs editorial policies, the corrections and clarifications page, published content reviews and resources – including the ABC Pronunciation and Style guides.

A basic guide to some style quirks from the independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to the public.

Do a site search for Australian speeches.

Collection of transcripts from Australian Prime Ministers contains approximately 23,000 individual speeches, media releases and other transcript items dating from the early 1940's through to the end of the Turnbull Government in 2018.

Site dedicated to Public Speeches and Speakers of all kinds and includes a Speech Bank, Movie Speeches, Audio Figures of Speech, The Top 100 American Speeches etc.

Dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by inspirational, influential and contemporary, women from around the world.

To access country specific publications and statistics by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), select Browse by Country from the menu across the top of the page.