Gazettes advise the public of the decisions made by parliament and the various government departments and instrumentalities. They contain information on public service appointments and promotions, public holidays, dates when new legislation will come into effect, bankruptcy notices, tender notices, details of re-organisation of government departments, etc. Bound volumes of the Australian and New South Wales government gazettes are located on Floor 9 of Fisher Library.
National Archives of Australia. Fact sheet 22 – Commonwealth of Australia Gazettes
GovPubs: The Australian Government Publications Guide
GovPubs: the Australian Publications Guide to Government Gazettes on the Web includes to both Commonwealth and State Gazettes
Capital Monitor
The Capital monitor database includes items from the Commonwealth and state government gazettes.
National Library of Australia
A guide to finding information in official government gazettes
This guide includes comprehensive information on the structure and content of Gazettes andalso includes information pages for the Gazettes of States and Territories. Useful for locating Gazettes available online and identifying the purpose of different section of Gazettes. The guide provides the most detailed holdings for Gazettes available online.
information about the current series of Australian Government gazettes is available from the Australian Government information and services website and a Commonwealth of Australia Gazettes – Fact sheet(22) is also available from the National Archives of Australia
Government Gazettes online
Commonwealth Government Gazette Online
The Commonwealth Government Notices Gazette (Gazette), including Special and Periodic Gazettes, has been published by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel since 1 October 2012. Between 1 July 2002 and 1 October 2012, the Gazette was published by the Attorney-General's Department. Gazettes published before 1 July 2002 are not available electronically.
Gazette notices are now published electronically as individual general notices on ComLaw. More information can be found here
Commonwealth Government Gazette (Online) 2012+
Commonwealth Government Historical Gazettes (Online) 2002-2012
New South Wales Government Gazette Online
New South Wales Government Gazette (Online) 2001 +
New South Wales Government Gazette Index (online) 2001-
Additional information for New South Wales Gazettes is available from the State Library of New South Wales Government Gazette website.
New South Wales Government Gazettes 1836-1859 (State Library of Victoria)
University of Sydney Library holdings
Australian Federal Government
Commonwealth of Australia gazette Canberra: AGPS
Location: Law Compactus G.AUS G holdings incomplete
Australian Government Gazette Canberra: AGPS
Location: Law Compactus G.AUS G holdings incomplete
New South Wales Government
New South Wales. The Government Gazette of New South Wales (Sydney: Government Printer)
Location: Storage DST 05683
Library has: 1833-v. 2 (1863) ; v. 2 (1864)-v. 3 (1867) ; v. 1 (1869) ; v. 1 (1877)-v. 4 (1877) ; v. 2 (1878)-v. 1 (1879) ; v. 3 (1879)-v. 4 (Dec. 1881) ; v. 3 (Apr./May 1882)-v. 1 (Mar. 1886) ; v. 3 (July 1886)-v. 6 (1900)
New South Wales. Government gazette of the State of New South Wales
Location: Law Compactus G.NSW G
Library has: Sep-Dec 1901 ; Feb 1902 ; Nov-Dec 1903 ; Apr-Dec 1904 ; Jul-Dec 1905 ; Jul-Dec 1906 ; Apr-Jun 1907-1908 ; Apr-Jun 1909 ; Jan-Mar 1914 ; 28 Oct 1915 ; 1948 ; 1961 (incomplete)-1991.
Wanting: 1907 v.4
Index: Index to the New South Wales Government Gazette: for the year....
Location: Law Compactus G.NSW G
Library has: 1832-1842 ; 1983-1992 (Imperfect)
Sydney gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 1803-1842
Microform holdings Storage 072A 4 & DST 11655
Library has: Vol. 1 (Mar. 5, 1803 to Feb. 26, 1804)-v.9 (5 Jan. 1811 to 28 Dec. 1811)
1(Mar. 5, 1803 to Feb. 26, 1804)-v.9 (5 Jan. 1811 to 28 Dec. 1811)
Microform holdings Storage 079.9441 12 & D N493
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 5, 1803)-v. 40, no. 6503(Oct. 20, 1842)
Available online via the National Library Australia Newspapers Digital Collection
Access: Sydney gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 1803-1842
State Library of New South Wales holdings for the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
Australian Capital Territory. Australian Capital Territory Gazette
Location: Storage May 1989- 1993 imperfect
Availble online: ACT Governments Gazettes online 1996+
Gazette Index available 1989-2001
