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The place to start for coverage of Australia's political, economic and social affairs. Broad-ranging coverage also includes Australian humanities and social sciences, current affairs, and law

A current affairs and company information database. It includes major newspapers, news wire services and business journals world wide.
For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive includes The Sydney Morning Herald 1986+, Australian Financial Review 1987+, BRW 1989+, and the News Limited archive includes The Australian 1996+.
15 concurrent users only. Also use Proquest Newsstands or Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre for international & recent Australian news coverage.

Good for broad searches of scholarly literature from both free and subscription sources. For search results which highlight the articles available to you through Library subscriptions, use the links on our website to Google Scholar, or enable Google Scholar settings. Also useful to find references which cite other academic articles.

Provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles in the field of political science published in journals and yearbooks all over the world.

Good place to look for local and international resources on contemporary social, economic and political issues. Public affairs, public and social policies, international relations

Available in 2016
PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. Includes full-text journals, reference works books, and full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.

Searchable collection of full text journals covering the social sciences and political sciences.

Built on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts and ABC Pol Sci, this database provides abstracts of the international serials literature in political science, international relations, law, and public administration and policy.

Section of the Commonwealth Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade site

New material recently added to the Parliamentary Library

What's happening in the Commonwealth parliament - a summary of the passage of new bills, hearings, special events

What's happening in the Commonwealth parliament - a summary of the passage of new bills, hearings, special events

Recently tabled reports of the Australian Senate.

Recently tabled reports of the Australian House of Representatives

Tabled papers include documents and artefacts presented to Parliament in the course of its proceedings. Documents tabled in Parliament include reports from parliamentary committees, annual reports of departments and agencies, reports from the Auditor-General and legislative instruments.